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Regulatory transparency in multilateral agreements controlling exports of tropical timber, e-waste and conflict diamonds

Wolfe, Robert; Baddeley, Shane - 2012

Export restrictions can be problematic if trading partners question either their conformity with international obligations or their possibly unintended negative impacts on others. Regulatory transparency can help. This paper examines how three multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)...

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Realising regional potentials through better market integration in China

Molnár, Margit - 2019

China’s regions have been experiencing impressive growth over the past decades, but their potentials could be better … at making up for the slow progress over the past decade or so. There are signs that these efforts are helping China … Paper relates to the 2019 OECD Economic Survey of China (http://www.oecd.org/economy/china-economic-snapshot/). …

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The use of patent statistics for international comparisons and analysis of narrow technological fields

Haščič, Ivan; Silva, Jérôme; Johnstone, Nick - 2015

Patent data provide an increasingly used means to analyse innovation performance worldwide including in countries with incomplete data coverage, such as some developing countries. This paper discusses the specific issues associated with using patent data for measuring and analysing innovation in...

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Environmentally adjusted multifactor productivity : methodology and empirical results for OECD and G20 countries

Cárdenas Rodríguez, Miguel; Haščič, Ivan; … - 2016

This paper further refines the OECD framework for measuring the environmentally adjusted multifactor productivity growth that seeks to incorporate environmental services in productivity analysis. Compared to standard productivity measurement, this framework allows accounting also for the use of...

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Environmentally adjusted multifactor productivity : methodology and empirical results for OECD and G20 countries

Cárdenas Rodríguez, Miguel; Haščič, Ivan; … - 2018

The paper further refines the OECD framework for measuring the environmentally adjusted multifactor productivity growth that seeks to incorporate environmental services in productivity analysis. Compared to standard productivity measurement, this framework allows accounting also for the use of...

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Productivity measurement with natural capital

Brandt, Nicola; Schreyer, Paul; Zipperer, Vera - 2013

Traditional measures of multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth generally do not recognise natural capital as inputs into the production process. Since productivity growth is measured as the residual between output and input growth, it will pick up the growth in unmeasured inputs, which can lead...

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Managing environmental risks in development banks and development finance institutions : what role for donor shareholders?

Morgado, Naeeda Crishna; Taşkın, Özlem - 2019

How and where infrastructure is built – and how environmental and social risks related to infrastructure are managed – will have a direct influence on whether developing countries pursue more sustainable development pathways or not. Development banks and development finance institutions...

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Towards green growth in emerging market economies : evidence from environmental performance reviews

Samson, Rachel; Capozza, Ivana - 2019

This paper provides a cross-country review of progress towards green growth in selected emerging market economies that are members or partners of the OECD. It draws on the country studies conducted within the OECD Environmental Performance Review Programme for Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia,...

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Supporting research for sustainable development

Borowiecki, Martin; Machado, Diogo; Paunov, Caroline; … - 2019

This document presents nine innovation policy initiatives from different OECD countries that support research and innovation for sustainable development by embracing systemic solutions to address the challenge. The three types of initiatives reviewed include: i) grant schemes that support the...

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International trade and the transition to a more resource efficient and circular economy : a concept paper

Yamaguchi, Shunta - 2018

The transition towards a more resource efficient and circular economy has broad linkages with international trade through the emergence of global value chains as well as trade in second-hand goods, end-of-life products, secondary materials and waste. Despite of the potential linkages between...

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