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No. 243 | 03 Dec 2020 |
Services trade and labour market outcomes in the United Kingdom
Services trade has become increasingly important, yet its impact on employment has been understudied at present. This paper uses fine-grained data on firm- and worker-level information to shed light on the impact of services trade on employment and... |
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No. 200 | 21 Apr 2017 |
Services trade costs
Estimates for ad valorem tariff equivalents of services trade restrictions for cross-border trade in six services sectors are presented in this paper. These equivalents are found to be very big in several service sectors with estimates ranging as... |
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No. 257 | 22 Nov 2021 |
Services trade in the United Kingdom and the global economy
Services play a more important role in trade and employment in the United Kingdom than in most other OECD countries. The UK services sector is supported by an open and transparent trade regime, policies that support competition and innovation, and... |
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No. 264 | 20 Oct 2022 |
Shedding light on the drivers of services tradability over two decades
Services have become significantly more tradable in the first two decades of the 21st century. This paper documents that trade costs for financial services, communication services and business services fell by between 30% and 60% between 2000 and... |
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No. 283 | 26 Jun 2024 |
Shocks in a highly interlinked global economy
This report analyses the broad risks associated with sectoral output disruptions both domestically and abroad, examining several exposure metrics. The results indicate that domestic shocks generally have larger sectoral impacts than foreign shocks.... |
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No. 165 | 05 Sept 2014 |
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Global Markets: A Differential Approach for Services?
This study empirically investigates key restrictions to the internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in manufacturing and across different types of services. The study explores the extent to which binding constraints faced by... |
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No. 91 | 07 Sept 2009 |
South Africa's Trade and Growth
This paper examines key trade and trade related issues facing South Africa. It describes South Africa‘s re-entry into the global trade architecture and its economic growth in the context of its trade performance, as well as the composition and... |
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No. 39 | 17 Oct 2006 |
South-South Services Trade
This paper contributes to the debate on the development potential of South-South trade in services. It represents the first attempt to identify key features governing the South-South dimension of services. Services trade between developing countries... |
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No. 40 | 16 Oct 2006 |
South-South Trade In Goods
The empirical analysis presented in this paper indicates that trade between developing countries (South-South trade) offers a wide scope for specialisation and efficiency gains. The first part of the paper takes an ex-post perspective and employs the... |
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No. 26 | 26 Jan 2006 |
Special and Differential Treatment Under the GATS
This report sets out the particular approach to special and differential treatment (SDT) in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). In particular, the report explores how the degree of flexibility afforded to all Members under the GATS... |
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No. 32 | 28 Mar 2006 |
Special and Differential Treatment in the Area of Trade Facilitation
Annex D of the July 2004 Decision of the WTO General Council indicates that "the principle (of special and differential treatment for developing and least-developed countries) should extend beyond the granting of traditional transition periods for... |
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No. 147 | 24 Apr 2013 |
State-Owned Enterprises
With a growing integration via trade and investment, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that have traditionally been oriented towards domestic markets increasingly compete with private firms in the global market place. Three principal questions emerge... |
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No. 4 | 13 Aug 2004 |
Structural Adjustment in Textiles and Clothing in the Post-ATC Trading Environment
This study focuses on the adjustment challenges facing the textile and clothing industries across the globe. The analytical work was initially suggested during informal consultations between the OECD Trade Committee and Civil Society Organisations.... |
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No. 255 | 03 Nov 2021 |
Sustainability impact assessments of free trade agreements
Trade negotiations are frequently accompanied by sustainability impact assessment (SIA) to evaluate the potential economic, environmental, social and human rights effects of a possible agreement. SIAs can help promote environmental protection, and... |
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No. 140 | 05 Oct 2012 |
Taking Stock of Measures Restricting the Export of Raw Materials
Governments appear increasingly inclined to resort to border and domestic measures that restrict the export of raw materials. For industrial raw materials, the OECD is constructing an Inventory of measures that have been applied since 2009. The... |
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No. 78 | 26 Sept 2008 |
Technical Barriers to Trade
Since the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) came into force, Members have invested considerable efforts in adopting and promoting the use of measures intended to reduce conformity assessment (CA) related barriers to trade. Our... |
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No. 62 | 25 Jan 2008 |
Technology Transfer and the Economic Implications of the Strengthening of Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the influence of the strength of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on technology transfer to developing nations. The core contribution is to use regression analysis to examine the relationship between... |
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No. 33 | 17 May 2006 |
The Australian Preferential Tariff Regime
The purpose of this paper is to consider the preferential trade arrangements available to developing countries exporting into the Australian market. The paper opens with an overview of these arrangements, followed by a detailed statistical review. It... |
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No. 98 | 02 Jun 2010 |
The Availability and Cost of Short-Term Trade Finance and its Impact on Trade
The systemic nature of the recent financial crisis precipitated a general and synchronized drop of activity in the interbank market, contaminating most banks in almost all regions. The ensuing economic crisis was characterised by a drop in production... |
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No. 8 | 10 Nov 2004 |
The Cost of Introducing and Implementing Trade Facilitation Measures
This report presents preliminary findings from a series of country surveys on the costs of introducing and implementing trade facilitation measures. It was prepared in response to concerns with respect to the cost implications of a future WTO... |
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Services trade and labour market outcomes in the United Kingdom
Andrea Lassmann and Francesca Spinelli
03 Dec 2020
Services trade has become increasingly important, yet its impact on employment has been understudied at present. This paper uses fine-grained data on firm- and worker-level information to shed light on the impact of services trade on employment and...
Services trade costs
Sebastian Benz
21 Apr 2017
Estimates for ad valorem tariff equivalents of services trade restrictions for cross-border trade in six services sectors are presented in this paper. These equivalents are found to be very big in several service sectors with estimates ranging as...
Services trade in the United Kingdom and the global economy
Annabelle Mourougane, Sebastian Benz and Frédéric Gonzales
22 Nov 2021
Services play a more important role in trade and employment in the United Kingdom than in most other OECD countries. The UK services sector is supported by an open and transparent trade regime, policies that support competition and innovation, and...
Shedding light on the drivers of services tradability over two decades
Sebastian Benz, Alexander Jaax and Yoto V. Yotov
20 Oct 2022
Services have become significantly more tradable in the first two decades of the 21st century. This paper documents that trade costs for financial services, communication services and business services fell by between 30% and 60% between 2000 and...
Shocks in a highly interlinked global economy
Christine Arriola, Przemyslaw Kowalski and Frank van Tongeren
26 Jun 2024
This report analyses the broad risks associated with sectoral output disruptions both domestically and abroad, examining several exposure metrics. The results indicate that domestic shocks generally have larger sectoral impacts than foreign shocks....
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Global Markets: A Differential Approach for Services?
Iza Lejárraga, Humberto López Rizzo, Harald Oberhofer, Susan Stone and Ben Shepherd
05 Sept 2014
This study empirically investigates key restrictions to the internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in manufacturing and across different types of services. The study explores the extent to which binding constraints faced by...
South Africa's Trade and Growth
Przemyslaw Kowalski, Ralph Lattimore and Novella Bottini
07 Sept 2009
This paper examines key trade and trade related issues facing South Africa. It describes South Africa‘s re-entry into the global trade architecture and its economic growth in the context of its trade performance, as well as the composition and...
South-South Services Trade
Nora Dihel, Felix Eschenbach and Ben Shepherd
17 Oct 2006
This paper contributes to the debate on the development potential of South-South trade in services. It represents the first attempt to identify key features governing the South-South dimension of services. Services trade between developing countries...
South-South Trade In Goods
Przemyslaw Kowalski and Ben Shepherd
16 Oct 2006
The empirical analysis presented in this paper indicates that trade between developing countries (South-South trade) offers a wide scope for specialisation and efficiency gains. The first part of the paper takes an ex-post perspective and employs the...
Special and Differential Treatment Under the GATS
OECD
26 Jan 2006
This report sets out the particular approach to special and differential treatment (SDT) in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). In particular, the report explores how the degree of flexibility afforded to all Members under the GATS...
Special and Differential Treatment in the Area of Trade Facilitation
Evdokia Moïsé
28 Mar 2006
Annex D of the July 2004 Decision of the WTO General Council indicates that "the principle (of special and differential treatment for developing and least-developed countries) should extend beyond the granting of traditional transition periods for...
State-Owned Enterprises
Przemyslaw Kowalski, Max Büge, Monika Sztajerowska and Matias Egeland
24 Apr 2013
With a growing integration via trade and investment, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that have traditionally been oriented towards domestic markets increasingly compete with private firms in the global market place. Three principal questions emerge...
Structural Adjustment in Textiles and Clothing in the Post-ATC Trading Environment
Denis Audet
13 Aug 2004
This study focuses on the adjustment challenges facing the textile and clothing industries across the globe. The analytical work was initially suggested during informal consultations between the OECD Trade Committee and Civil Society Organisations....
Sustainability impact assessments of free trade agreements
Evdokia Moïsé and Stela Rubínová
03 Nov 2021
Trade negotiations are frequently accompanied by sustainability impact assessment (SIA) to evaluate the potential economic, environmental, social and human rights effects of a possible agreement. SIAs can help promote environmental protection, and...
Taking Stock of Measures Restricting the Export of Raw Materials
Barbara Fliess and Tarja Mård
05 Oct 2012
Governments appear increasingly inclined to resort to border and domestic measures that restrict the export of raw materials. For industrial raw materials, the OECD is constructing an Inventory of measures that have been applied since 2009. The...
Technical Barriers to Trade
Barbara Fliess, Frédéric Gonzales and Raymond Schonfeld
26 Sept 2008
Since the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) came into force, Members have invested considerable efforts in adopting and promoting the use of measures intended to reduce conformity assessment (CA) related barriers to trade. Our...
Technology Transfer and the Economic Implications of the Strengthening of Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries
Walter G. Park and Douglas C. Lippoldt
25 Jan 2008
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the influence of the strength of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on technology transfer to developing nations. The core contribution is to use regression analysis to examine the relationship between...
The Australian Preferential Tariff Regime
Douglas C. Lippoldt
17 May 2006
The purpose of this paper is to consider the preferential trade arrangements available to developing countries exporting into the Australian market. The paper opens with an overview of these arrangements, followed by a detailed statistical review. It...
The Availability and Cost of Short-Term Trade Finance and its Impact on Trade
Jane Korinek, Jean Le Cocguic and Patricia Sourdin
02 Jun 2010
The systemic nature of the recent financial crisis precipitated a general and synchronized drop of activity in the interbank market, contaminating most banks in almost all regions. The ensuing economic crisis was characterised by a drop in production...
The Cost of Introducing and Implementing Trade Facilitation Measures
Evdokia Moïsé
10 Nov 2004
This report presents preliminary findings from a series of country surveys on the costs of introducing and implementing trade facilitation measures. It was prepared in response to concerns with respect to the cost implications of a future WTO...