2. Cluster
Bretton Woods Institutions
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Segment 2: World Bank
Segment 3: General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Segment 4: Alternative / Critical Research on the Bretton
Woods Institutions
Segment 5: OECD
Segment Five – OECD
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3. • International Management
• International Political Economy
• International Business
• International Relations
Segment Four – Alternative / Critical Research
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4. OECD
(www.oecd.org)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD)
to promote policies that will improve the economic and social situation around
the world
provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences
and seek solutions to common problems
works with governments to establish what drives economic, social and
environmental change
cooperation with a variety of civil society organisations.
commitment to market economies backed by democratic institutions
measure productivity and global flows of trade and investment
8. Example:
words/phrases
for letter ‘D’
- Foreign equivalent
- Definition
- In which context
- Where was it used first
time
- Statistical theme
- First created when
- Last update
9. OECD
(www.oecd.org)
Publications from the OECD
OECD Publishing (www.oecd.org/about/publishing/whatsnew.htm)
• one of the world’s largest publishers of books in the fields of economics and
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thousands of new stat. tables, working papers & journal articles each year
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the full range of OECD books, papers, and statistics in PDF, WEB and XML
formats to online users including find, use, and cite of OECD information
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