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Attention is increasingly being paid to the conceptualization of the sustainable development agenda that should guide global development efforts beyond 2015. New trends are shaping the international...

Continuation along current development pathways is not sustainable. Current technologies and production practices and the consumption patterns of modern societies are leading to global warming and...

Export growth in Latin America and the Caribbean over the past 20 years has enabled the region to regain part of the share of global trade that it had lost during the three preceding decades. However...

Despite an increase in manufacturing activity in Latin America and the Caribbean, the growth in value-added generated by exports of manufactures has been disappointing in most cases. In order to...

Brazil has been the most dynamic exporter of services of Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s and 2000s. Brazil's rising share in global services trade reflects mostly its increase in the...

Given the fact that Ireland was once one of the poorest countries in Europe but it has managed to become one of the richest and most globalized countries in the world, this case study seeks to show...

The global economic crisis has put an end to a period of worldwide expansion and halted the integration of Latin America and developing Asia with the international economy. Current and expected...

The publication reviews the present status and future prospects between the United States and the Latin American and Caribbean region. It examines the trade-policy making environment in the United...

Singapore has been touted as a success story in development literature. Various theories have been offered to explain how and why the city-state has succeeded, but none of them have received unanimous...

This book offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the early 1980s...

This book studies the processes which lead to the explosion of civil strife and tries to spell out the policy options available to address the challenges faced by post-conflict economies. It calls for...

Despite the rise in recent decades in the average income level, economic insecurity has also increased. True for both developing and developed countries, this increasing economic insecurity is harmful...

The Finnish case of industrial renewal from essentially natural-resource-based industries toward machinery, engineering, electronics and ICT is of particular relevance for Latin-American countries...

The study of CzechInvest, the leading and most prestigious investment and business development agency in the Czech Republic, seeks to describe and analyze the principles underlying the promotion of...

The present report explains the development path of Korea, from a country which started its development with a lack of natural resources, industrial facilities, sufficient foreign reserves and...