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This report describes the complex and changing interrelationship between trade, domestic investment and foreign direct investment and provides examples of good practices in trade policymaking that create a healthy investment climate in developing countries. The purpose of the document is to develop a framework for an operational and practical guide for trade policymakers.

This paper presents the new findings from the on-going work of the OECD project on trade preference erosion. Following a review of the recent literature, the paper develops two main types of analysis. While highlighting a number of cases of preference reliance, the paper
underscores the advantages of multilateral liberalisation.

The study indicates that Indiana has improved its rank versus other states in only 9 of 23 areas studied. It shows the state doing well in areas like industry and university research and development, but not so well in areas like education and workforce.

The paper reports the findings from a series of meetings designed to analyze the potential in the Midwest for building a biotech region and advancing technology commercialization.

The paper discusses some of the economic functions of cities, focusing on economic activities that make firms in cities more productive and more attractive to urban households.According to the author, agglomeration economies are increasingly concentrated on the consumption side and quality of life issues have become a more important determinant of where people choose to live.

Competitive pressures appear to be relatively strong in the United Kingdom, with economic and administrative regulations inhibiting competition and barriers to trade amongst the lowest in the OECD. Nevertheless, there is scope for improvement and the recent overhaul of competition legislation should lead to progress in this regard.

This paper provides an assessment of the impact of a package of structural reforms in the European Union and the United States on long-run trade and output gains accruing to OECD countries. The package includes reforms that reduce competition-restraining regulations, cut tariff barriers and ease restrictions on foreign direct investment to “best practice” levels in the OECD area.

The paper provides an overview of the course of economic reform and the performance of the Russian economy since the early 1990s and an analysis of the structural reform challenges ahead. It assesses the contribution of institutional and structural reforms to economic performance over the period, before turning to the question of where further structural reforms could make the biggest contribution to improved performance.

This paper analyses the impact of changes in social institutions, i.e. in the informal and formal social security system, on income inequality in China. This study uses an inequality decomposition analysis approach comparing household survey data for 1988 with 1995.

This paper investigates how social composition affects social conflict and economic development when property rights are unenforceable. It is shown that conflict prevents investment and growth in a society of symmetric groups.