Promoting Trade in Services Experience of the Baltic States


Book Description

This report highlights progress being made in modernising the banking, telecommunications, electricity, air freight sectors in the Baltic States.




OECD Factbook 2007 Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics


Book Description

OECD Factbook 2007 is the third edition of a comprehensive and dynamic new statistical publication from the OECD. More than 100 indicators cover a wide range of subject areas.




OECD Factbook 2008 Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics


Book Description

OECD Factbook 2008 is the fourth edition of a comprehensive and dynamic statistical annual from the OECD. More than 100 indicators cover a wide range of areas: economy, population, globalisation, energy, labour, science and technology, environment, education, public finance, and quality of life.




The Post-Socialist Internet


Book Description

How is the Internet produced as an infrastructure in post-socialist Lithuania? Migle Bareikyte contributes to the growing field of STS and media studies with a distinct focus on Eastern Europe. She situates the Internet development in Lithuania's telecom industry with the exploration of its labor practices, geopolitical imaginaries, and critical negotiations from a bottom-up perspective. Bareikyte further explores how fieldwork-based research can foster new theorizations of media infrastructures. Finally, she argues for a situated investigation of new places and actors beyond the United States and Western Europe-such as post-socialist regions-in order to explore the diversity of media infrastructures.




Business Services in European Economic Growth


Book Description

The business services sector contributes heavily to European economic growth. Yet links between business services, and their role in economic growth remain under-explored. This volume provides a comprehensive approach from an applied economics perspective, covering with clear focus all the major mechanisms through which this contribution operates.




Understanding Economic Statistics: An OECD Perspective


Book Description

Drawing on OECD statistics in particular, ‘Understanding Economic Statistics: an OECD perspective' shows readers how to use statistics to understand the world economy. It gives an overview of the history, key concepts and the main providers of economic statistics.




OECD Factbook 2006 Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics


Book Description

The second edition of a comprehensive statistical annual covering all OECD countries and most topics addressed by the OECD. Includes more than 100 indicators with definitions, time-series tables, and graphics showing key messages.




OECD Factbook 2005 Economic, Environmental and Social Statistics


Book Description

OECD Factbook 2005 is the first edition of a comprehensive and dynamic new statistical annual from the OECD. More than 100 indicators cover the full range of topics covered by the OECD.




OECD Factbook 2011


Book Description

Annotation OECD Factbook 2011/12 is a comprehensive and dynamic statistical annual publication from the OECD. More than 100 indicators cover a wide range of areas: agriculture, economic production, education, energy, environment, foreign aid, health, industry, information and communications, international trade, labour force, population, taxation, public expenditure, and R the opposite page contains a table and a graph providing - at a glance - the key message conveyed by the data.




OECD Factbook 2007


Book Description

OECD Factbook 2007 is the third edition of this statistical annual from the OECD. More than 100 indicators cover a wide range of areas: economy, agriculture, education, energy, environment, foreign aid, health and quality of life, industry, information and communications, population/labour force, trade and investment, taxation, public expenditure and R&D. Data are provided for all OECD member countries with area totals, and for selected non-member economies. The 2007 edition includes a special focus on migration data. For each indicator, there is a two-page spread. The page on the left is textual and includes a short introductory text followed by a detailed definition of the indicator, comments on comparability of the data, an assessment of long-term trends related to the indicator, and a list of references for further information on the indicator. The page on the right contains a table and a graph with a graph providing the key message conveyed by the data. A link is provided for each table, which directs the user to a web page where the corresponding data are available in Excel format.