FOREWORD Meeting at the Saint Petersburg Summit in September 2013, the assembled leaders of the Group of Twenty noted " the importance of better understanding the rapid expansion of global value chains (GVCs) and impacts of participation in GVCs for growth, industrial structure, development and job creation. " Leaders welcomed the work done in 2013 by the OECD, the WTO, and the UNCTAD, and aske...

British Columbia Muhammad G. Morshed, PhD; Min-Kuang Lee, MS; Stephanie Man, BS; Keerthi Fernando, MSc; Quantine Wong, BS; Patrick Tang, MD, PhD, FRCPC; David M. Patrick, MD, MHSc, FRCPC; Sunny Mak, MSc; Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC; British Columbia Centre for Disease Control Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Briti...

2 3 FOREWORD Government regulations can have both positive and negative effects on the innovation process. Among other goals, regulatory reform in the OECD countries is intended to enhance the positive regulatory effects on innovation. Reforms should help ensure that regulations in all spheres of activity are fully responsive to changes in the economic, social and technical conditions surroundi...

A short description is given of the history of ZEBET, the National Centre for the Documentation and Evalation of Alternatives to Animal Experiments of the Ferderal Government of Germany at the Federal Institute of Ris Assessment (BfR). ZEBET was established in 1989 as the first government centre focusing on reducing testing in animals. In 1993 the EU followed this example by establishing ECVAM ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the relative number of deaths in member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from international terrorism and road crashes. METHODS Data on deaths from international terrorism (US State Department database) were collated (1994-2003) and compared to the road injury deaths (year 2000 and 2001 data) from the OECD International Road ...

A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with non-clearing labour markets and imperfect competition is estimated for 21 OECD countries. The model provides for parameters both for preferences and technology and for the degree of structural rigidities on labour and product markets. These parameters are matched with policy indicators, establishing a relation between the model-based employmen...

Trade preferences are a central issue in ongoing efforts to negotiate further multilateral trade liberalization. “Less preferred” countries are increasingly concerned about the discrimination they confront, while “more preferred” developing countries worry that WTO-based liberalization of trade will erode the value of current preferential access regimes. This tension suggests there is a politic...

In this study the authors analyze fixed broadband retail prices in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), and provide estimates about the effect of price changes on broadband adoption. The analysis is based on a survey of plans and tariffs conducted by the authors during Q2 2010. Their results suggest that fixed broadband services in LAC are generally expensive and of poor quality when benchmar...

FOREWORD This paper was prepared for an OECD Workshop on the Benefits of Climate Policy: Improving Information for Policy Makers, held 12-13 December 2002. The aim of the Workshop and the underlying Project is to outline a conceptual framework to estimate the benefits of climate change policies, and to help organise information on this topic for policy makers. The Workshop covered both adaptati...

For more than a decade, the OECD has encouraged research and debate on the concept of learning regions, and its relevance to policy interventions intended to promote economic and social development. CRITICAL (City-Regions as Intelligent Territories: Inclusion, Competitiveness and Learning), a Europeanfunded project, has contributed to research on this and related ideas, focusing on five 'city-r...