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Tax Co-operation 2007
Towards a Level Playing Field
In 2006, the Global Forum on Taxation, which includes both OECD and Non-OECD economies, launched an annual assessment of transparency and tax information exchange policies covering 82 economies.This update report highlights changes made over the last year in the domestic laws ...
(2007)
Tax Co-operation 2006
Towards a Level Playing Field
The Global Forum on Taxation, which consists of OECD and non-OECD economies, seeks to improve transparency and to establish effective exchange of information so that countries can ensure compliance with their national tax laws. The Global Forum is working towards a level playi...
(2006)
Supermarkets and the Mea...
The Economic Impact of Food Retail on Farmers, Processors and Consumers
This volume examines developments in the food economy, focusing on the economic impacts of increasing retailer concentration on consumers, processors and farmers.The document estimates retail market power and assesses price transmission in the beef, pork and poultry supply cha...
(2006)
The Rise of China and In...
This book demonstrates how the growing economic power of China and India is already influencing the growth patterns of African countries, particularly oil- and commodities-exporting ones. As world prices for commodities rise, producer countries in Africa and throughout the wor...
(2006)
The Political Economy of...
Based on experience in OECD countries, this book provides a comprehensive discussion of the effectiveness of environmentally related taxes, of recent research on the environmental and economic impacts of applying them, an on their potential for wider use. In particular, it loo...
(2006)
The New Rural Paradigm
Policies and Governance
What is the new rural paradigm? Its main characteristics are a focus on places rather than sectors and an emphasis on investments rather than subsidies. In an era of reduced agricultural employment,this report highlights the important and diverse challenges facing rural areas,...
(2006)
The Implementation Costs...
Concerns about the cost of implementing and monitoring agricultural policies are mounting with the development of more decoupled and targeted policies. While these costs are inherent in the policy process, reducing them will bring benefits in terms of better use of public fund...
(2007)
The Ladder of Competitiv...
How to Climb it
Tables of national competitiveness give an easily comparable ranking of the winners and losers of global economic competition. But they don't explain why the “poor” countries are four times less productive than the “rich” ones or why some rich countries are twice as productive...
(2006)
The Battle against Exclu...
Social Assistance in Belgium, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Norway
Institutions whose goal is to help those at the margins have been a feature of social life for centuries. Today, social assistance institutions have integration and encouragement as their goal. They seek to avoid exclusion and stigmatisation.Poverty can tear at the fabric of s...
(2007)
The Development Effectiv...
Does Tying Matter?
The Development Effectiveness of Food Aid: Does Tying Matter? provides a detailed look into two food aid issues. First, the study assesses the effectiveness of the various ways in which food aid can promote food security and poverty alleviation.Second, the study demonstrates t...
(2006)
The World Economy
Volume 1: A Millennial Perspective and Volume 2: Historical Statistics
The World Economy brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, first published in 2001 and The World Economy: Historical Statistics, published in 2003. This new edition contains Statlinks, a service providing access to the...
(2006)
The Taxation of Employee...
Employee stock option plans have become a common component of remuneration packages in multinational enterprises. This publication presents and examines the many important tax issues that arise for beneficiaries and companies. Focusing first on domestic tax issues, it consid...
(2006)
The Social Economy
Building Inclusive Economies
Social economy -- also known as'non-profit' or 'third sector' -- organisationshave grown in number and relevance, contributing to employment, social inclusion, democratic participation and community building. Much remains to be done, however, to create the necessary enabling e...
(2007)
The SME Financing Gap (V...
Proceedings of the Brasilia Conference, 27-30 March 2006
A significant number of entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) could use funds productively if they were available, but are often denied access to financing. This impedes their creation and growth. The "financing gap" was the subject of the OECD Global Con...
(2007)
The SME Financing Gap (V...
Theory and Evidence
The lack of fundingavailable from the financial sector for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is known as the "financing gap". This timely report analyses this gap for both credit and equity financing and seeks to determine how prevalent such a gap may be, both among OE...
(2006)
Transport and Internatio...
With the removal of many trade policy barriers, further international economic integration depends largely on the reduction of trade costs originating in the transport sector. This Round Table presents three papers focusing on the structure and development of international tra...
(2006)
Transport and Decentrali...
Over the past decades, many OECD countries' transport sectors have become more decentralised. This report examines whether the economic benefits and experiences of decentralisation have been positive. It finds that the answers vary according to the mode of transport, the type ...
(2006)
Trading Up
Economic Perspectives on Development Issues in the Multilateral Trading System
The prospect of further trade liberalisation sometimes attracts a noisy public discourse, particularly with respect to the possible implications for developing countries.This volume considers trade and development from an economic perspective, aiming to examine these emotive i...
(2006)
Trends in the Transport ...
This report provides the reader with the first available internationally comparable figures on key transport trends. It analyses the transport situation in the western and eastern European countries, as well as the Baltic States and the CIS. For the first time, data are provid...
(2007)
Understanding National A...
This manual explains what GDP and GNI and their components are and what they mean. It shows how they are used and what they are used for. And it does this in an easily understood way. Opening with a chapter showing how national accounts concepts relate to macroeconomics, the b...
(2007)
