Authors:OECD. Published by : OECD Publishing, OECD,
Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Keywords: enterprises, privatisation, owned, state, governance, corporate
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1998-04-09
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 9264160752
ISBN-13: 9789264160750

How can the efficiency of state-owned enterprises be improved ? What effects do privatisation policies have on corporate governance in privatised entreprises ? What role do employees play in corporate governance ? This report examines these issues and provides recommendations. This publication presents the papers of the OECD conference on "State-Owned Enterprises, Privatisation and Corporate Governance" which took place in Paris on 3 and 4 March 1997. It brings together contributions from different countries highlighting different approaches to governance in state-owned enter

Authors:OECD. Published by : OECD Publishing, OECD,
Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Keywords: marketable, permits, design, work, markets, putting
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 1998-01-28
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 9264156151
ISBN-13: 9789264156159

Goverenments today face a complex and evolving set of problems arising in part from globalization, technological change, and rapid social change. In this more demanding and dynamic environment, many traditional instruments such and command-and-control regulation are diminishing in effectiveness and efficiency. Inflexible and detailed regulations also often conflict with other priorities, such as the need for competitive and innovative economies. Governments are now looking for new ways to address economic and social problems. One of the alternatives to traditional command-a

Authors:OECD. Published by : OECD Publishing, OECD,
Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Keywords: society, ageing, reforms
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2001-02
List price: $64.00
ISBN-10: 926417687X
ISBN-13: 9789264176874

This book reviews recent trends, reforms and lessons learned in the OECD countries as they relate to aging. Recent reforms agendas have been driven mainly by fiscal factors-to adjust systems such as pensions and long-term care to the aging of the baby boom generation. This publication finds that a new policy agenda appears to be emerging, and it is likely to be centered on reversing the recent trends towards longer lifetime years to be spent in retirement and fewer lifetime years in employment. It is associated with likely trends towards a more diversified system of retirement income in most O

Authors:OECD. Published by : OECD Publishing, OECD,
Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Keywords: vol, approaches, environmental, oecd, objectives, quality, paris, regulatory, cou, technologies, available, industrial, instruments, requirements, workshop, permitting
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 1999-03-15
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 9264161937
ISBN-13: 9789264161931

Environmental permits have played a major role in improving industry’s environmental performance across the last few decades. Because they adopt a precautionary approach during the setting of environmental requirements, permitting strategies have also

Author: OECD. Published by : OECD Publishing
Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Keywords: water, electricity, transport, land, telecom, infrastructure
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2006-07-06
List price: $56.00
ISBN-10: 9264023984
ISBN-13: 9789264023987

Energy, transport, water and telecommunications all are essential to future development and growth. However, infrastructure investment requirements over the coming decades will be massive, running into trillions of dollars. How will the nee

Author: OECD. Published by OECD Publishing
Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Keywords: tax, administrations, transfer, enterprises, multinational, pricing, guidelines, version, travel
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2001-06-18
List price: $68.00
ISBN-10: 926418628X
ISBN-13: 9789264186286

This compact version of Transfer Pricing Guidelines provides the complete and current text of the OECD pricing guidelines accepted by member countries and to be used by multinational enterprises when transferring goods and services across

Author: OECD. Published by OECD Publishing
Publisher: Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Keywords: economies, transition, emerging, policies, agricultural
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2000-07-24
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 9264176403
ISBN-13: 9789264176409

Agricultural trade reform is a global issue. Countries are concerned both about reforms they may be required to implement and about the extent of liberalisation undertaken elsewhere. For OECD countries, the impacts of multilateral reform will depend in