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ECMT Annual Report 2005
This publication describes the activities of the ECMT during 2005. It also sets out the main documents approved by Ministers in Moscow and presents: the major events of the year, the latest trends in transport, the activities of the ECMT Working groups, and JTRC activities. It...
(2006)
Environment at a Glance
OECD Environmental Indicators
This fact-filled bookpresents key environmental indicators endorsed by OECD Environment Ministers and major environmental indicators from the OECD Core Set. These indicators reflect environmental progress made since the early 1990s and thus contribute to measuring environmenta...
(2006)
Entwicklungszusammenarbe...
Der Jahresbericht des OECD-Entwicklungsausschusses (DAC) ist das einschlägige Referenzdokument für Statistiken und Analysen zu den jüngsten Trends in der internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.Der diesjährige Bericht zeigt wie üblich den Stand der Fortschritte im Bereich d...
(2007)
Entwicklungszusammenarbe...
Politik und Leistungen der Mitglieder des Entwicklungsausschusses
(2006)
Financial Support to Fis...
Implications for Sustainable Development
OECD governments pay out around USD 6 billion a year to support the fisheries sector. Some of this expenditure is provided to help ensure the effective management of fisheries through the provision of research, administrative and enforcement services. However, its effects on e...
(2006)
Export Credit Financing ...
2005 Update
This 2005 update toExport Credit Financing Systems includes8 updated country chapters(Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic and Spain); two updatedannexes (Annex 1: the text of the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits and Anne...
(2006)
Environmental and Energy...
The Benefits of Liberalising Trade
This collection of studies is intended to help trade negotiators navigate through the international discussion over liberalising trade in environmental goods and services by exploring in greater depth three categories of environmental goods: environmentally preferable products...
(2006)
Estimation and Evaluatio...
Cost data for the construction and operation of facilities are essential for the evaluation of infrastructure services supplied by private or public providers.This roundtable examines what data is needed for evaluation; which methods best measure the efficiency of service prov...
(2007)
Fundamental Reform of Co...
Policy makers in OECD countries are concerned about whether they can maintain their current levels of corporate income tax revenues and how they can create an attractive investment climate for domestic and foreign investors. This report presents the recent trends in the taxati...
(2007)
Fishing for Coherence
Proceedings of the Workshop on Policy Coherence for Development in Fisheries
Some 500 million USD are spent annually on fisheries development projects. But fisheries access agreements and trade policies are sometimes applied in ways that dampen developing countries' ability to benefit fully from their rich marine resources. Also, many development proje...
(2006)
Fishing for Coherence
Fisheries and Development Policies
For OECD and non-OECD countries alike, the global fisheries situation poses topical questions of coherence between development and fisheries in a number of policy areas. This publication examines these questions and proposes a framework for in-depth analysis of coherence issue...
(2006)
Financing Water and Envi...
The Case of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
The current environmental situation of the countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA)is dire and challenges are mounting, but there are also new opportunities.This report explains the environmental challenges that these transition economies face, and as...
(2006)
Globalisation and Region...
Can OECD Regions Compete in Global Industries?
Despite concern about the negative impacts of globalisation on the economies of OECD regions, notably the loss of manufacturing jobs and enterprise relocation, this report presents evidence that region-specific advantages – embedded in specialised firms, skilled labour and inn...
(2007)
Geographical Distributio...
This publication provides comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to around 150 developing countries for the period 2001-2005.The data show each country's intake of Official Development Assistance or Official Aid, as well as other off...
(2007)
Geographical Distributio...
This publication provides comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to over 180 recipient countries, including countries in transition in eastern Europe for the period 2000-2004. The data show each country's intake of Official Developme...
(2006)
Fundamental Reform of Pe...
In a drive to encourage risk-taking, entrepreneurship and competitive fiscal advantage, many OECD countries have reformed their personal income tax system fundamentally over the last two decades, generally in ways that can be characterised as rate reducing and base broadening....
(2006)
Improving Access to Publ...
Guidelines for Transport Personnel
These guidelines are designed to encourage understanding of the specific problems experienced by disabled and older passengers when using the transport system, and to provide guidance on how best to respond to their needs. Accessible, user-friendly transport means that disabl...
(2006)
Human Capital
How what you know shapes your life
This first book in the new OECD Insights Series examines the increasing economic and social importance of human capital - our education, skills, competencies, and knowledge. As economies in developed countries shift away from manufacturing, economic success for individuals and...
(2007)
Health at a Glance 2007
OECD Indicators
This2007 edition of Health at a Glance provides the latest comparable data and trends on different aspects of the performance of health systems in OECD countries. It provides striking evidence of large variations across countries in indicators of health status and health risks...
(2007)
Innovation and Growth in...
How is innovation transforming tourism business models? By tackling the subject of innovation, this report touches upon an important dimension of tourism economics rarely examined at the international level. It provides information about the dynamics and characteristics of inn...
(2006)
