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• To revive Mfg., bank proposes carbon tax on Chinese imports

  - 2008-06-30

  Imposing a carbon tax on Chinese imports would lead to a resurgence of the U.S. manufacturing industry, according to a report from Canada's largest banking firm, CIBC World Markets. A carbon tariff on imported goods, "may be the only way developed nations will be able to achieve real cuts in...

  Tags: bank, carbon, China, emission, FINANCE, import, OECD, Taxes, U.S.

• Get an Overview of Diesel Usage in the Major Developing Markets, Including Brazil, China, India, and Russia

  - 2008-01-17

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c79902) has announced the addition of "Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel" to their offering. The global drive toward "clean diesel" has accelerated in recent years and parallels the auto industry's efforts to reduce vehicle emissions; both are the result of government mandates to improve...

  Tags: China, Government, Ireland, OECD, refinery, SOFTWARE

• Chapter 1: general assessment of the macroeconomic situation

  - 2007-12-01

  OVERVIEW Financial turmoil, housing weakness and oil prices are forefront ... 2007 is set to become the fourth year of above-trend growth in the OECD area (Table 1.1), but activity is now moderating. One cause of this moderation is the cooling of housing markets, which will act to...

  Tags: asset, China, corollary, financial, Iceland, inflation, investment, Japan, OECD, tax, U.K., U.S.

• Technological Superpower China

  - 2007-12-01

  Technological Superpower China Jon Sigurdson, in collaboration with Jiang Jiang, Xinxin Kong, Yongzhong Wang and Yuli Tang (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2005), xviii+347 pages China's economic boom and political ambition have fuelled unprecedented investment in science and technology. Since 1999, the country's spending on research and development (R&D)...

  Tags: China, FINANCE, Investment, OECD, R&D

• Tech talk

  - 2007-11-01

  "China has a long way to go to build a modern, high-performance national innovation system."--OECD Review of China's National Innovation System, Aug. 2007, p.60. "Traditional measures of innovation such as market success are significantly lagging indicators. We're interested in measures that are timely, meaningful, and, most importantly, actionable."--David Burrage,...

  Tags: China, Collaboration, Groupware, Leadership, OECD, SOFTWARE

• China has a long way to go in innovation

  - 2007-10-17

  China has a "long way to go" before it is able to capitalize on its substantial investment being made in science and technology, says the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD. "China needs a better return on its fast-rising investments in research and development and higher education if it...

  Tags: China, FINANCE, innovation, Investment, Leadership, OECD, Strategy

• OECD report: China is becoming an R&D force

  - 2007-09-17

  China is well on its way to becoming the world's largest exporting nation "and is regaining its former historic place in the world economy," according to the OECD. But the majority of its exports of information and communication technology products are primarily from foreign companies that have opened plants there,...

  Tags: China, innovation, Leadership, OECD, R&D, Strategy

• OECD releases China innovation review

  - 2007-08-31

  This month, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD released a report that consolidates its research on China's innovation policies. The research was requested by China's Ministry of Science and Technology MOST and is the fruit of several fact-finding operations by the OECD, an October 2006 workshop held in...

  Tags: China, innovation, Leadership, OECD, R&D, Strategy

• China's environment protection efforts 'not sufficient': OECD

  - 2007-07-16

  PARIS AFP — The OECD warned Tuesday that China's breakneck economic growth was wreaking severe damage on the environment and said Beijing's efforts to date to curb pollution had been insufficient. "Rapid economic development, industrialisation and urbanisation have generated severe and growing pressures on the environment resulting in significant...

  Tags: China, environment, OECD

• Letters to the editor

  - 2007-06-29

  I question your statement that China has surpassed the U.S. in exports. We export over $1 trillion per year, and China is currently in third place behind the U.S. and Germany, respectively, as suggested by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: www.oecd.org/document/15/0,2340,en_2649_201185_35363023_1_1_1_1,00.html. --Andrew Reinke fti@foreigntargets.com

  Tags: China, Germany, OECD, U.S.