Special issue on public support to industry.

Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, [1998], ©1998.

141 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: the OECD's mission in the field of public support to industry -- Trends and patterns of public support to industry in the OECD area -- International control and discipline of subsidies: the EU and WTO surveillance exercises -- State aid control in the European Union -- The evaluation of support programmes: the example of the United Kingdom -- Downsizing subsidies: the Finnish example -- Public support to industrial R&D efforts -- Defining subsidies for R&D and industrial innovation.