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SME Competitiveness Outlook 2016
Meeting the Standard for Trade
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...
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...
SME Competitiveness Outlook 2015
Connect, Compete and Change for Inclusive Growth
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 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...
Global Compact International Yearbook 2015
This publication gives a global overview of the achievements of the Global Compact. It offers proactive and in-depth information on key sustainability issues to stakeholders and promotes unique and...
This publication gives a global overview of the achievements of the Global Compact. It offers proactive and in-depth information on key sustainability issues to stakeholders and promotes unique and...
SME Competitiveness Outlook 2017
The Region - A Door to Global Trade
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 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...
SME Competitiveness Outlook 2023
Small Businesses in Fragility: From Survival to Growth
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...
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...
SME Competitiveness Outlook 2022
Connected Services, Competitive Businesses
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...
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...
SME Competitiveness Outlook 2021
Empowering the Green Recovery
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...
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...
SME Competitiveness Outlook 2019
Big Money for Small Business - Financing the Sustainable Development Goals
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...
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...
SME Competitiveness Outlook 2018
Business Ecosystems for the Digital Age
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...
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...
Global Compact International Yearbook 2009
Since its launch in July 2000, the Global Compact has grown to become the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative. Its more than 6,000 business participants in nearly 140 countries strive...
Since its launch in July 2000, the Global Compact has grown to become the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative. Its more than 6,000 business participants in nearly 140 countries strive...
Global Compact International Yearbook 2011
Over the last several years, the United Nations has become a trailblazer in promoting corporate responsibility. In the 11 years since its launch, the United Nations Global Compact has been at the...
Over the last several years, the United Nations has become a trailblazer in promoting corporate responsibility. In the 11 years since its launch, the United Nations Global Compact has been at the...
Import Procurement and Materials Management of Automotive Spare Parts
This guide discusses production and distribution of spare parts and import procurement management. It also provides information on pricing, transport, and inventory management. The appendices list...
This guide discusses production and distribution of spare parts and import procurement management. It also provides information on pricing, transport, and inventory management. The appendices list...
Maritime Transportation Guidelines for Importers
Guide
This book on sea transport discusses factors relating to transport in import procurement responsibility for international transport, the purchase contract terms, sea transport alternatives, types of...
This book on sea transport discusses factors relating to transport in import procurement responsibility for international transport, the purchase contract terms, sea transport alternatives, types of...
Supplier Quality Conformance in Import Procurement
Guide
This guide discusses buyer's objectives, contractual commitment, procurement quality programme, product characteristics and quality assurance; the need for identification of products, description of...
This guide discusses buyer's objectives, contractual commitment, procurement quality programme, product characteristics and quality assurance; the need for identification of products, description of...
Improving Public Procurement Systems
Guide
This textbook focuses on institutional and policy issues affecting public procurement in developing countries. It covers scope and policy objectives and summarizes essential features. It discusses...
This textbook focuses on institutional and policy issues affecting public procurement in developing countries. It covers scope and policy objectives and summarizes essential features. It discusses...
Warehousing Techniques for Imported Goods
Guide
This study discusses warehousing of imports: objectives and functions of warehousing; warehouse planning, costs and economics; building and stockyard design, layout and structure; warehousing of...
This study discusses warehousing of imports: objectives and functions of warehousing; warehouse planning, costs and economics; building and stockyard design, layout and structure; warehousing of...
SME Competitiveness Outlook 2020
COVID-19: The Great Lockdown and its Impact on Small Business
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 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...
Global Compact International Yearbook 2010
Looking back at the past 10 years, the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) has left its mark in a variety of ways, helping shape the conversation about corporate responsibility and diffusing the...
Looking back at the past 10 years, the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) has left its mark in a variety of ways, helping shape the conversation about corporate responsibility and diffusing the...
Global Compact International Yearbook 2012
The main focus of this latest edition is the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). The event marked a crossroad for sustainable development and set the sustainability agenda for the...
The main focus of this latest edition is the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). The event marked a crossroad for sustainable development and set the sustainability agenda for the...
Bid Evaluation in Import Procurement
Guide
This guide on the evaluation of bids and offers from foreign suppliers is aimed at public sector or other importing organizations in developing countries. The book covers procurement terminology and...
This guide on the evaluation of bids and offers from foreign suppliers is aimed at public sector or other importing organizations in developing countries. The book covers procurement terminology and...