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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 Member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade. It is a forum whose member countries describe themselves as committed to democracy and the market economy, providing a platform to compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practices, and coordinate domestic and international policies of its members. The majority of OECD Members are high-income economies ranked as "very high" in the Human Development Index, and are regarded as developed countries. Their collective population is 1.38 billion. , OECD Member countries collectively comprised 62.2% of global nominal GDP (US

49.6 trillion) and 42.8% of global GDP (Int

54.2 trillion) at purchasing power parity. The OECD is an official United Nations observer. In April 1948, t

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Our results lend support to the Porter Hypothesis and provide a clue to the underlying mechanism. We try to get at the causal effect of energy prices on TFP using a set of observations made annually on a large number of manufacturing industries located in OECD countries. We find that (i) rising energy prices have the potential to reduce TFP at the industry level, but (ii) when combined with the amount of R&D spending, rising energy prices increase TFP at the industry level, which means that sectors that spend more on R&D are those that take advantage of higher energy prices. When both channels – direct and mediated by R&D spending – are taken into account, higher energy prices raise productivity in most industries.

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Living up to Policy Coherence for Development? The OECD's Disciplines on Tied Aid Financing

Livia Bianca Fritz

With tied aid credits donors aim at boosting the international competitiveness of domestic enterprises while simultaneously contributing to development in recipient countries. Though regulated through the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits, tied aid credits claim a place amongst the instruments of development policy and are eligible as Official Development Assistance (ODA). This begs the question whether the international regulatory framework is equipped to safeguard the presumed development goals. This paper examines the consistency of the tied aid disciplines of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) with the development principles coined by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Thereby, the extent to which the OECD lives up to its own promise of Policy Coherence for Development (PCD) is scrutinised.

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