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A message from WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy
In the early days of trade, seafarers relied on a combination of navigational skills, courage and good instincts to steer their way through turbulent waters. In more recent times, technology has transformed the way we circumnavigate the globe but the basic need to steer a steady course through stormy seas remains the same.
Activités statistiques
En 2016, l’OMC a apporté de nouvelles améliorations à ses produits statistiques. Le Portail intégré d’information commerciale (I-TIP) a été mis à jour pour élargir la gamme des renseignements disponibles, et la publication statistique phare de l’OMC, l’Examen statistique du commerce mondial, a été remaniée. Des améliorations ont aussi été apportées aux deux autres publications statistiques annuelles de l’OMC, les «Profils commerciaux» et les «Profils tarifaires dans le monde». L’OMC a organisé trois grands événements statistiques pendant l’année.
Offshoring services: Recent developments and prospects
Despite the recovery in the world economy in 2003 and 2004, unemployment remained high in many industrial countries. Even in those countries which reported a strong recovery, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, employment levels recovered only moderately, leading many observers to wonder about a “jobless recovery”. Although employment growth typically lags behind in each cyclical output recovery, sluggishness in services sector employment seemed to be a new development. In previous downturns, the services sector continued to generate new jobs. The information communications technology (ICT) sector – one of the most dynamic sources of new employment in the 1990s – not only slowed down in terms of job growth, but actually experienced a decline in the payroll after the ICT crash in 2000-01. Many dot.com companies and telecom firms closed down or had to downsize as investment outlays in IT hardware and software decreased in OECD countries.