The Trade Committee and its subsidiary groups paid significant attention to technology transfer; digital trade, including principles for market openness in the digital age and barriers to cross-border data flows; trade facilitation; services trade; and, trade and investment in global value chains.
The Trade Homepage on the OECD website contains up-to-date information on published analytical work and other trade-related activities. Non-Members may participate as committee observers when Members believe that participation will be mutually beneficial. Key partners - Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and South Africa - participate to varying degrees in OECD activities through the Enhanced Engagement program, which seeks to establish a more structured and coherent partnership, based on mutual interest, between these five major economies and OECD Members.
Environment and Trade. The Joint Working Party on Trade and Environment provides a forum for discussing the effects of environmental policies on trade and the effects of trade policies on the environment, as well as for promoting mutually supportive trade and environmental policies. Recent work has focused on the role of regional trade agreements in promoting environmental awareness and the inclusion of environmental objectives in negotiations, along with resource efficient economies and sustainable materials management.
For more information on OECD work on environment click here. The Investment Committee of the OECD is one of the principal multilateral forum for addressing international investment issues. The Committee's discussions and analytical work help build international consensus on key emerging policy challenges with respect to international investment and on ways to promote sound investment policy and high standards of investment protection.
The Committee also seeks to promote voluntary adherence by multinational enterprises to sound business practices. The OECD Steel Committee engages in regular monitoring of steel markets and international steel trade, including barriers to trade and restrictions on trade in steelmaking raw materials. We work with a range of countries through Country programmes and Country-specific approaches — to help them move closer to OECD standards and policy recommendations and support their policy reforms in specific pre-determined areas, such as integrity, anti-corruption, governance, rule of law, investment, business climate.
We have successfully conducted and completed two Country Programmes — with Peru and Kazakhstan — and are currently implementing two additional programmes with Thailand and Morocco, and discussing future programmes with Egypt and Viet Nam. The Centre contributes expert analysis to the debate on development policy.
The objective is to help decision makers find policy solutions to stimulate growth and improve living conditions in developing and emerging economies. We also host the Sahel and West Africa Club SWAC , an international platform aimed at promoting regional policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people in the Sahel and West Africa.
Home About Our global reach. Where: Global reach. Did you know? Since , eight new countries have joined the OECD. View list of countries. Australia Year of accession Austria Year of accession Belgium Year of accession Canada Year of accession Chile Year of accession Colombia Year of accession Costa Rica Year of accession Czech Republic Year of accession Denmark Year of accession Estonia Year of accession Finland Year of accession France Year of accession Germany Year of accession Greece Year of accession Hungary Year of accession Iceland Year of accession There are currently thirty-four member countries from all around the world, and they have all joined the OECD as a sign of their commitment to the market economy and personal democracy.
Most of the countries that are members of the OECD are developed countries that have a high-income economy. These countries use the OECD as their platform to develop best practices, coordinate their numerous policies, and find answers to common issues by engaging with fellow countries with similar issues at hand. The headquarters for the organization is located in Paris , France. Then, twelve years after the OECD became an official operating organization, four other countries joined the group.
These four countries include…. Over time, many other countries began to recognize the benefits of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. From providing countries with a platform for talking about issues that other countries relate to, and just being an amazing support system, to everything else in between, the OECD is very similar to a friend group, but for countries.
Even farther down the road, more and more countries started recognizing the incredible perks of being an OECD country. Throughout the s and up until the year , additional countries opted to join the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development. The most recent countries to become part of the OECD are Here is the combined list of the member countries. A very beneficial aspect of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development is that the OECD helps member nations figure out how to properly handle funding, budgeting, and other monetarily involved parts of running a nation.
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