Perhaps the deepest explanation for the Legion of Gloom s strength is where they live. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the OECD economies averaged annual GDP growth of 0.5 from 2008 to 2012, whereas non OECD economies averaged 5.2 growth.

Newly industrialized countries and transitional economies account for a major proportion of the IT alliances involving non OECD countries.

See M. Gal, Competition policy in small economies, OECD Global Forum on Competition Policy, CCNM GF COMP WD(2003)42.

In the OECD official flows to countries with economies in transition are considered as official aid rather than official development assistance.

The majority of funds pledged were from OECD countries, but the Contributing Participants also included a few developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

The guide draws on conclusions of meetings with experts from transition economies, OECD countries, international institutions and private sector representatives within the framework of the Forum.

Labor productivity is also quite low For most economies in the region, service sector productivity is less than 20 of the OECD average. Even in South Korea, labor productivity in industry is 118 of the OECD figure, but only 43 of the average for services.

Source OECD.

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Source OECD, Promoting Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries (Paris OECD, 1993).

According to OECD data, only 55 of South Korean women aged 15 64 are in the labor force, compared to an average of 65 in the advanced economies. South Korea s male labor force participation rate, by contrast, stands at about 77 close to the OECD average of 79 .

For starters, services have been gaining ground worldwide, especially in developed economies. From 1970 to 2012, the GDP share of services in the OECD countries increased from 53 to 71 .

OECD, Export Credit Financing Systems in OECD Member and Non Member Countries, 2002 Supplement.

OECD, Competition Law and Policy in Russia, an OECD Peer Review, p. 25 (2004).

Bo Lim, OECD secretariat

Fiona Mullins, OECD secretariat

Fiona Mullins, OECD secretariat

OECD issued in 2002 the Model Agreement on Exchange of Information on Tax Matters (hereinafter referred to as OECD Model TIEA), which was developed by the OECD Global Forum Working Group on Effective Exchange of Information and resulted from the work undertaken by OECD to address harmful tax practices beginning with the 1998 OECD report (see OECD Model TIEA, introduction and paras.

These words appear in neither 2003 OECD Model article 26 nor 2005 OECD Model article 26.

Ms. Kitty Gordon (OECD Secretariat) reviewed the human rights content and accountability mechanisms of the OECD.

Mytelka, L. (ed.) (1996a), Competition, Innovation and Competitiveness in Developing Countries, OECD Development Centre, OECD, Paris.

In early 2005, OECD published the Handbook on Economic Globalization Indicators, which provides guidance on the measurement of the internationalization of production, international mobility of resources and increasing interdependency of national economies.

The APEC Competition Law and Policy Seminar (Bangkok, 18 21 March 1997) conducted by senior officials for competition authorities in member economies of APEC, as well as representatives from OECD and UNCTAD

Upon completion of this activity, trade data of OECD member countries will be processed by OECD only and will be included in OECD and Statistics Division databases simultaneously.

See Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Harmful Tax Competition An Emerging Global Issue (1998 OECD report) (Paris, 1998), introduction and chap. 1 and OECD, Improving Access to Bank Information for Tax Purposes (2000 OECD report) (Paris, 2000), paras.

The World Trade Organization is now disseminating trade profiles of economies combining trade flows with trade policy information sourced from within the World Trade Organization and other organizations and OECD has developed a prototype on trade indicators (trade plus production, employment, investment, etc.) linking standardized information from various OECD databases to trade data.

1998 OECD report, chap. 3.

See 1998 OECD report, paras.

Bright Outlook for Steel Industry in 2005 2006 Forecast at OECD IISI Conference , OECD, 17 January 2005.

The Set and the OECD instruments all provide for cooperation on enforcement. The OECD instruments having influenced or been inspired by the bilateral enforcement agreements concluded among OECD countries.

The specific objective was to facilitate co ordination of capacity building assistance in the field of chemicals pesticides management provided by OECD member countries to developing countries, including those with economies in transition.

For example, the World Bank uses a classification based on per capita income, while the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) considers developing countries separate from the transition economies of Eastern Europe.

OECD also developed several new manuals, such as Measuring productivity OECD manual Measurement of aggregate and industry level productivity growth in 2001 and OECD handbook on economic globalization indicators in 2005.

The signs of social distress are multiplying. South Korea s divorce rate has doubled, fertility rates have fallen to the fourth lowest among advanced economies, and the suicide rate is the highest in the OECD.

The majority of funds pledged were from member States of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), but the contributing participants also included a few developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

The OECD is a collaborating partner.

Source OECD Economic Outlook 76 database.

OECD has worked on this issue.

Mr. Andrea Goldstein, OECD Development Centre

See OECD, Hard Core Cartels, 2000.

) Therefore, 2003 OECD article 26 and 2005 OECD article 26 provide a broader coverage than UN Model article 26.

Through collaboration with the OECD, the quality of the information on OECD countries in the database has been improved.b

For this purpose, UNIDO collects this annual data directly from approximately 150 countries not members of OECD, while it receives data for OECD member countries through OECD to avoid duplication of efforts.

UNIDO continues to pay particular attention to training in the safe formulation and application of pesticides, and has published safety guidelines in this area, and the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) is cooperating with OECD to extend to ECE countries with economies in transition systems and practices for the safe handling of chemicals established by OECD.