Smart Rules for Fair Trade: 50 Years of Export Credits

On the fiftieth anniversary of the OECD, this book examines the organization's unique work in regulating and rationalizing governments' use of export credits in support of exports, jobs, economic growth, national interests, multilateral cooperation, and sound economic policies. OECD's work on export credits is one of the basic building blocks of the ever-growing structure of global trade agreements that aim to maintain open and efficient markets. The objective is to eliminate subsidies and unfair practices in the economic competition that forms the foundation of a healthy and dynamic global economy.

The export credits work at the OECD is described in this collection of essays. It is, however, about much more than the series of agreements described herein. It is fundamentally more about the governments and their people ?policymakers and experts ?who gather at the OECD to build a system of export credit disciplines that is fair, transparent, adaptable, and effective.