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COVID-19 and the retail sector: impact and policy responses

This brief recommends five policy measures that countries need to take for the benefit of firms, workers and customers to shield the retail sector from the effects of the crisis and increase its resilience.

Start-ups and COVID-19: Facing the challenges, seizing the opportunities

Start-ups play a key role in OECD countries in terms of job creation, innovation, and long-run growth, but the COVID-19 crisis is reducing their creation, challenging their survival, and limiting their growth.

Steel Committee, March 2020

Although this meeting did not take place due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the reports by industry on regional steel market developments have been shared.

Peer review of the Dutch shipbuilding industry

The shipbuilding and marine equipment industries of the Netherlands are part of a maritime cluster of about 17 200 Dutch maritime companies that also includes ports, the offshore industry, shipping, dredging, maritime services, fishing, inland shipping, naval activities and the water sports industry. In 2017, the maritime cluster accounted for 3.1% of gross domestic product (GDP) of the Netherlands.

Laggard firms, technology diffusion and its structural and policy determinants

Measuring employment in global value chains

This paper describes the sources and methods used to produce the indicators in the OECD Trade in Employment database. These indicators were developed, as a complement to Trade in Value Added (TiVA) indicators, to provide broad insights into the impact of global value chains on labour markets.

Global value chains and the shipbuilding industry

This paper presents new descriptive evidence on value added generation and sourcing patterns of intermediate inputs for ship construction of major shipbuilding economies. The findings reveal that shipbuilding relies heavily on intermediate inputs as around 70-80% of the final output value of ship production is generated through supplier sectors.

Industrial robotics and product(ion) quality

Governments in OECD and emerging economies are betting heavily on robotics to safeguard the competitiveness of their manufacturing industries. This paper examines the importance of industrial robotics as a driver of production and trade quality.

87th Session of the Steel Committee, Paris, 26-27 September 2019

The Steel Committee held in-depth discussions on challenges facing the global steel industry and policy approaches to encourage adjustment and ensure a level playing field in the sector.

Exploring changes in world production and trade

Drawing on the 2018 update of the OECD’s Inter-Country Input-Output (ICIO) database, this paper explores the evolution of trade in value added between 2005 and 2015. Changes in international production systems are examined with particular attention given to four key sectors heavily integrated into global value chains: textiles and apparel, chemicals, ICT and electronics, and motor vehicles.