OECD countries face at least five major challenges for promoting policies that are consistent with their development goals: . ensuring security and political stability; . anticipating the impacts of their macroeconomic policies on developing-country growth; . increasing both market access and...

S’ils veulent promouvoir des politiques cohérentes par rapport à leurs objectifs de développement, les pays de l’OCDE devront relever au moins cinq grands défis : . garantir la sécurité et la stabilité politique ; . anticiper les effets de leurs politiques macroéconomiques sur la...

Le processus de développement de l’Asie de l’Est est encore mal compris –notamment qu’il s’agit d’un développement séquentiel en grappe, effets d’osmose entre économies à niveaux différents de développement industriel. Il n’existe à ce jour aucune analyse systématique de...

Le processus de développement de l’Asie de l’Est est encore mal compris –notamment qu’il s’agit d’un développement séquentiel en grappe, effets d’osmose entre économies à niveaux différents de développement industriel. Il n’existe à ce jour aucune analyse systématique de...

The East Asian development experience is still not well understood – especially the region’s clustered, sequential development process and neighbourhood effects linking economies at different levels of industrial development. Until now, the development impact of OECD-country policies had...

OECD countries face at least five major challenges for promoting policies that are consistent with their development goals: . ensuring security and political stability; . anticipating the impacts of their macroeconomic policies on developing-country growth; . increasing both market access and...

Private business activity, by creating and using “ideas”, drives economic growth in both rich and poor countries. Creating an enabling business environment is necessary but not sufficient for fostering the private sector in poor countries. Open dialogue, transparency, accountability and...

Globalisation has brought benefits to the economies in the Black Sea Economic Co-operation (BSEC) and Central Asia (CA), but compounded volatility and uncertainty associated with the transition to market economy. Labour markets have been put under pressure, as BSEC-CA countries compete on the...

• Tariffs still matter. • Full tariff liberalisation to 2010 would generate dynamic welfare gains of $1 200 billion (at 1995 prices), equivalent to 3 per cent of World GDP in 2010, from greater efficiency and higher productivity. • Developing countries stand to gain relatively more from...

Aid and trade policies – in OECD countries and in developing countries – might reinforce each other to promote development, or they might be substitutes: the sign of the correlation between trade and aid flows depends on the context. East Asia’s rapid growth demonstrates the important...