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Many regional trade agreements (RTAs) contain chapters and articles that are environmentally specific. However, Parties can elect to more broadly incorporate environmental objectives in their RTAs to address their environmental concerns in such agreements. This report investigates in what ways...
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This report aims to test whether the inclusion of environmental provisions in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) has contributed to the improvement of environmental quality among the Parties to these agreements through empirical modelling and analysis. Three indicators are considered as a proxy...
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The transition towards a more resource efficient and circular economy has broad linkages with international trade through the emergence of global value chains as well as trade in second-hand goods, end-of-life products, secondary materials and waste. Despite of the potential linkages between...
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While policymakers are rightly concerned about evidence of rising income concentration at the top, it is often wrongly assumed that the same rich individuals stay rich. In reality, the membership of this group are in a state of constant flux. This new study, based on more than 20 million tax...
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The correlation between a firm’s size and its productivity level varies considerably across OECD countries, suggesting … that some countries are more successful at channelling resources to high productivity firms than others. Accordingly, we … examine the extent to which regulations affecting product, labour and credit markets influence productivity, via their effect …
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services in output and its integration in the world economy. Productivity growth in the United Kingdom has consistently … financial crisis. Sluggish productivity growth in the service sectors was the main factor behind this weak performance. Raising … productivity will help to sustain employment and wages but will require a broad range of policies. Keeping low barriers to trade …
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This paper examines the link between barriers to trade and investment and productivity performance, in the United … a robust determinant of productivity in the long term. Control variables such as spending on R&D and human capital also … range of productivity measures as well as to changes in the sectoral coverage and the set of controls. …
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paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use …. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct effect benefitting the firms actually increasing their digital … intensity, and an indirect effect of belonging to a sector with high digital intensity. The firm-level productivity premium of …
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