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The Secretariat of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe has been publishing biennial reviews on iron and steel scrap since 1983. The present statistical update focuses on the significance...

Standards and regulations are an integral, if easily overlooked, part of our daily life. They determine whether a plug fits into a socket, whether food is safe for human consumption or whether a bank...

This report looks at the missing link to inclusive growth for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), which are less productive relative to large firms in the developing world than in the developed world...

This year’s report focuses on regional trade, the most common form of trade for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It contains 50 country profiles, featuring detailed SME competitiveness...

This SME Competitiveness Outlook assesses the impact of conflict and fragility on business performance. It unveils a Fragility Exposure Index, and shows that fragility, as experienced by firms, can be...

Our services sectors are key to an economic transformation. This report calls them ‘connected services. Transport and logistics, financial services, information and communication technologies, and...

The SME Competitiveness Outlook 2021 analyses how small businesses can rebuild from the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic so they are better prepared to face the looming crisis of climate change. It...

Increasing annual investments in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries by $1 trilling would yield disproportionate dividends in terms of progress towards the Sustainable...

New technologies like advanced robotics, 3-D printing, big data and the internet of things are rapidly changing the way in which firms do business. A strong business ecosystem is necessary to manage...

With the dramatic political and economic changes in the 1980s, the world steel industry faced a challenging period. Moreover, the steel industry itself brought about an internal evolution through...

One of the conclusions in this study is that the growth of scrap collection offsets the substantial decline in scrap reproduced and recycled in steel works. This was based on a look at the situation...

The focus on this statistical update is on the significance and influence of scrap metal in the iron and steel industries. The study presented is basically made up of statistical tables with short...

This publication is released at a time where the world is carefully moving out of the 'great lockdown' stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, a partial or complete lockdown of the majority of...

This study is a definitive reference for everyone in the steel-making industry in the industrialized countries. General considerations about steel and scrap quality such as clean steels...

The focus on this statistical update is on the significance and influence of scrap metal in the iron and steel industries. The study presented is basically made up of statistical tables with short...

A new study which has collected information on the progress privatization has made in several transition countries and shows the latest developments on the most detailed level possible. In order to...

The focus of this study is the analysis of electric arc furnace (EAF) and thin slab caster-based mini mills for flat steel production. In conjunction with an overview of new technologies, the study...

The focus on this statistical update is on the significance and influence of scrap metal in the iron and steel industries. The study presented is basically made up of statistical tables with short...