Press Release: OECD calls for active employment, social measures to accompany trade liberalisation

Lower barriers to trade are needed for both goods and services to encourage innovation and stimulate economic growth, but governments need to accompany trade liberalisation by active policies to support employment and social welfare, according to new OECD analysis. Studies presented to the OECD's annual ministerial meeting in Paris on 3-4 May 2005 underlined the importance of services for future job creation and improved prosperity in both developed and developing nations

OECD: Forums, Ministerial and High-Level Meetings http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/oecdforumsministerialandhigh-levelmeetings.htm

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