Trade Liberalisation

Trade liberalisation - the opening up of markets through reduction of trade barriers - is one of a set of trade policies that aspire to achieve sustainable improvement in living standards across society. Read more ...

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How do trade and investment flows and policies affect innovation performance?

04-Nov-2008

There is today a great interest in understanding how governments can promote innovation and the benefits it brings, as evidenced by the discussions at the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting in 2007. To gain a better understanding of how trade and investment patterns and policies affect innovation performance, and interact with other key policies influencing innovation capacity, the Trade Committee has undertaken a Trade and Innovation Project

Technical Barriers to Trade: Evaluating the Trade Effects of Supplier's Declaration of Conformity

13-Oct-2008

This study explains expected trade-facilitating benefits and other characteristics of the use of Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity (SDOC) as a conformity assessment procedure and assesses the trade effect of the EU’s adoption of SDOC in three product sectors.

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) spillovers and their interrelationships with trade

08-Oct-2008

This paper uses firm-level data to identify FDI spillovers across countries and sectors. A positive interaction is found between trade liberalisation and productivity spillovers.

Harnessing the political economy in support of an open multilateral trading system

30-Sep-2008

The benefits of an open multilateral trading system are increasingly being questioned. Despite strong growth in international trade and investment, multilateral liberalisation faces considerable challenges and is becoming ever more elusive.

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