Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Highlights from Education at a Glance 2010

Trade by commodities. Series C

Foreign Trade

Trade by commodities, country summaries

Statistics of Foreign Trade

Berlin has benefited significantly from German reunification, still faces some persistent problems such as high unemployment, loss of population, and a declining industrial base. Disparities of this scale introduce fractures in a city which in other respects has recovered its unity. This study examines targeted urban regeneration measures designed to integrate immigrant communities, improve educational opportunities, address youth issues, invest in property development and support the growth of small and medium-size enterprises.

Towards an Integrated Strategy for Social Cohesion and Economic Development

Berlin

Power systems must be actively managed to maintain a steady balance between supply and demand. This is already a complex task as demand varies continually. But what happens when supply becomes more variable and less certain, as with some renewable sources of electricity like wind and solar PV that fluctuate with the weather? to what extent can the resources that help power systems cope with the challenge of variability in demand also be applied to variability of supply? How large are these resources? and what share of electricity supply from variable renewables can they make possible? There is no one-size-fits-all answer. the ways electricity is produced, transported and consumed around the world exhibit great diversity. Grids can cross borders, requiring co-ordinated international policy, or can be distinct within a single country or region. and whether found in dispatchable power plants, storage facilities, interconnections for trade or on the demand side, the flexible resource that ensures the provision of reliable power in the face of uncertainty likewise differs enormously. Written for decision makers, Harnessing Variable Renewables: a Guide to the Balancing Challenge sheds light on managing power systems with large shares of variable renewables. It presents a new, step-by-step approach developed by the IEA to assess the flexibility of power systems, which identifies the already present resources that could help meet the twin challenges of variability and uncertainty.

A Guide to the Balancing Challenge

Harnessing Variable Renewables

United States

OECD Economic Surveys

Chinese decision-makers are grappling with policy choices that will optimise the gains from China's integration into the international trading system in harmony with social, regional and sustainable development goals.

China's Agriculture in the International Trading System

The Future of Social Protection

The OECD Observer

International Trade by Commodities Statistics

Code of Liberalisation of Current Invisible Operations

MEI.

Papers for a Trade Union Seminar

Low Income Groups and Methods of Dealing with Their Problems

Agricultural Policies in 1966: Europe, North America, Japan

New communication technologies and the worldwide spread of the Internet have prompted the appearance of new business models and have changed the ways in which almost any business is conducted. The increased speed and mobility of business activities and cross-border transactions has particular implications for applying transfer pricing methods and for taxing business profits. E-commerce: Transfer Pricing and Business Profits Taxation presents a two-part look at existing OECD positions on these issues. Part I of this edition analyses e-commerce transfer pricing in the context of four business models: automated electronic transactions; online auctions for customer-to-customer and business-to-business sales; subsidiary-to-parent web hosting arrangements; and computerised transactions for airline reservations. The OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations provide guidance on the application of the arm’s length principle to transfer pricing methods. Given the fact patterns of the four business models, Part I assesses how appropriate this guidance is to the issues raised by e-commerce. Part II of this edition examines the current OECD Model Tax Convention treaty rules for taxing business profits. It studies whether the existing rules are capable of dealing with the new reality of e-commerce in a fair and effective manner and whether it could be possible to find better alternatives. This study is the final report of the Technical Advisory Group set up by the Committee of Fiscal Affairs for this purpose.

OECD Tax Policy Studies E-commerce: Transfer Pricing and Business Profits Taxation

Annual Reports on Consumer Policy in OECD Member Countries

Summarises the conclusions of a project organised by the OECD Working Group on Innovation and Technology Policy.

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