How to make infrastructure investment work for all

The 2017 OECD Business and Finance Outlook demonstrated the importance of a level playing field to ensure the benefits of trade and investment fall more evenly and fairly. It described how OECD standards can help set the ‘rules of the game’ for a level playing field, by promoting mutual market openness, fighting cross-border cartels, discouraging undue government support for internationally-active state owned enterprises (SOEs), preventing transnational bribery to win contracts, and avoiding competitive advantages based on compromised labour and environmental practices. More...