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Liberalized and Neglected? Food Marketing Policies in Eastern Africa
Analysis of structural adjustment and its impact on the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa has made considerable progress over the last few years. Debate has shown that liberalization alone is not...
Analysis of structural adjustment and its impact on the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa has made considerable progress over the last few years. Debate has shown that liberalization alone is not...
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...
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...
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...
Aprovechamiento de Cuencas Fluviales y Lacustres
Criterios y Enfoques de la Ordenacion de la Calidad del Agua en los Paises en Desarrollo
Aspects of Transition
This publication presents essays addressing the core problem of the form, pace and character of the relationship that is evolving between the general world trading system and the countries of Eastern...
This publication presents essays addressing the core problem of the form, pace and character of the relationship that is evolving between the general world trading system and the countries of Eastern...
Evolutionary Dynamics of China's Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises in the 1990s, The
This volume presents a review of the dynamic changes going on in the Chinese economic system. In particular it analyzes the amazing rapid growth of the township and village enterprise (TVE) sector...
This volume presents a review of the dynamic changes going on in the Chinese economic system. In particular it analyzes the amazing rapid growth of the township and village enterprise (TVE) sector...
Forest Transitions and Carbon Fluxes
Global Scenarios and Policies
This publication discusses the scenarios and policies on how the deforestation of natural forests and the expansion of forest plantations influence the global carbon cycle through emissions and...
This publication discusses the scenarios and policies on how the deforestation of natural forests and the expansion of forest plantations influence the global carbon cycle through emissions and...
Small Islands, Big Issues
Crucial Issues in the Sustainable Development of Small Developing Islands
This publication comprises six case studies which were prepared for the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States. The case studies deal with the following...
This publication comprises six case studies which were prepared for the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States. The case studies deal with the following...
Emerging Labour Markets
The study explains the background of the changes taking place in the former socialist countries and looks at the problems, causes and consequences of unemployment. The overview on the successor states...
The study explains the background of the changes taking place in the former socialist countries and looks at the problems, causes and consequences of unemployment. The overview on the successor states...
Food Security in Africa
The study is an important policy-oriented contribution to the analysis and the solution of the problems of food security in a macroeconomic dimension. It draws attention to factors related to the...
The study is an important policy-oriented contribution to the analysis and the solution of the problems of food security in a macroeconomic dimension. It draws attention to factors related to the...
Economic Reforms, Women's Employment, and Social Policies
The volume, while focusing on the consequences of reforms, also deals with the structural changes which are taking place as a result of export orientation in the economies and their dual impact on...
The volume, while focusing on the consequences of reforms, also deals with the structural changes which are taking place as a result of export orientation in the economies and their dual impact on...
Limits of the Global Village, The
Globalization, Nations and the State
This study, which deals with some of the general aspects of globalization focuses on the globalization process from a Latin American perspective. It shows that Latin America belongs to the hemisphere...
This study, which deals with some of the general aspects of globalization focuses on the globalization process from a Latin American perspective. It shows that Latin America belongs to the hemisphere...