Foreword The gravest crisis of our lifetimes is now receding, but this doesn't mean that we are going back to normal. Policy makers around the world are now confronting a triple and very delicate challenge: record unemployment, unsustainable fiscal deficits and low growth. All this in a context where environmental and climate concerns are becoming an increasingly important component of economic...

There is an ongoing debate on the question of which exchange rate regime is better suited to guarantee stability: fixed or flexible rates? The macroeconomic crisis in Argentina has again stimulated the discussion. In this paper, we argue that it is misleading to solely concentrate on exchange rate policy to assess the preconditions for stability in an international surrounding. Instead, we show...

Foreword The gravest crisis of our lifetimes is now receding, but this doesn't mean that we are going back to normal. Policy makers around the world are now confronting a triple and very delicate challenge: record unemployment, unsustainable fiscal deficits and low growth. All this in a context where environmental and climate concerns are becoming an increasingly important component of economic...

s from the Energy Charter Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Environmental Aspects (PEEREA) Article 3 Basic Principles Contracting Parties shall be guided by the following principles: (1) Contracting Parties shall co-operate and, as appropriate, assist each other in developing and implementing energy efficiency policies, laws and regulations. (2) Contracting Parties shall establish energ...

This essay explains how the domestic policy context enabled the Indian software industry to become the largest non-OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) exporter by 2000. The policy context is examined in three phases. Prior to 1984, rigid policy restrictions ensured that there was virtually no software industry. In the second phase (1984 to 1990), the restrictions were ...

This paper studies the income inequality and economic development relationship by using unbalanced panel data on OECD and non-OECD countries for the period 1962 2003. Nonparametric estimation results show that income inequality in OECD countries are almost on the backside of the inverted-U, while non-OECD countries are approximately on the foreside, except that the relationship in both country ...

Drawing on archival sources, interviews, and research literature, this article offers new insights into the making, structure long-term effects of International Educational Indicators (INES) programme Organisation for Economic Co-operation Development (OECD). The argues that INES was crucial in setting OECD path to becoming a global education policy actor. Although science has informed making c...

The workshop was opened with welcoming remarks by Mr. Ulrich Mohr, Head of Section, International Policy on Telecommunications and Posts, BMWI, and Mr. Sam Paltridge of Information, Computer, and Communications Policy Division, OECD. Both speakers introduced general issues in relation to Internet traffic exchange and a summary of recent discussions in OECD on this subject. Mr. Paltridge noted r...

This paper presents an analysis of the examination Portugal’s education policy conducted by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 1987 as well its role th...

We examine the allocation of hours of work across industrial sectors in OECD countries. We find large disparities across three sector groups, one that produces goods without home substitutes,and two others that have home substitutes but treated differently by welfare policy. We attribute the disparities to the countries’ tax and subsidy policies. High taxation substantially reduces hours in sec...