The Study of Evaluation OECD Member Countries Based on the Enabling Trade Indexes

Abstract

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 36 member countries,was established in Paris,1961. OECD aims to stimulate  sustainable economic growth and improve social well-being in many of the world's most advanced countries but also emerging countries. It provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems. The Global Enabling Trade Report was first published in 2008 by the World Economic Forum. It has become a powerful tool for alliances about improving trade facilitation by focusing on the right countries and the right projects, quickly and efficiently. Co-published by the World Economic Forum and the Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation, the report features the Enabling Trade Index which measures the factors, policies and services in economies that facilitate the flow of goods over borders and to their destination. This study aims to classify OECD member countries including Turkey, based on the data of the Enabling Trade Index 2016. For the process of entering the data, Excel and the statistical software program SPSS have been used. In the process of analyzing the data, cluster analysis has been used and Ward’s hierarchical clustering method has been chosen. In conclusion, the result indicates that OECD member countries generate five clusters.

Key words: OECD, WEF, The Enabling Trade Index 2016.