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Selected Bibliography of Published Market Reports covers various sectors, products and services of possible interest to developing countries and economies in transition of markets in Africa, Asia...

This is a directory of databases accessible online or through other electronic media, giving product, market, trade and economic information. Each entry gives host, type and category of information...

This UN Women’s flagship report shows that, all too often, women’s economic and social rights are held back, because they are forced to fit into a ‘man’s world’. But, it is possible to move beyond the...

This directory contains contact information for the following: ministries, trade promotion organizations, import promotion offices, operational trade points, trade associations, chambers of commerce...

2005 marks the fifth anniversary of the UN Millennium Declaration, adopted in 2000 and the tenth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action in 1995. In the decade since Beijing, the number of...

This report provides an extensive assessment of the reality of families today. It brings together global, regional and national data, and in-depth analysis about core issues of concern, including...

This thesaurus is intended to be used for trade information services in developing countries for bibliographical description and indexing of information materials and sources in both printed and...

This Directory includes government ministries, trade promotion organizations, import promotion offices, chambers of commerce in principal business centres and/or federations of chambers of commerce...

This directory contains contact information for the following: ministries, trade promotion organizations, import promotion offices, operational trade points, trade associations, chambers of commerce...

The past century has seen a transformation in women's legal rights, with countries in every region expanding the scope of women's legal entitlements. Nevertheless for many of the world's women the...

The present Directory includes ministries, trade promotion organizations, import promotion offices, chambers of commerce and industry, federations of chambers of commerce and industry, trade...

This volume of Progress of the World’s Women asks the question “Who answers to women?” at a pivotal moment. It demonstrates that the Millennium Development Goals and other international commitments to...

Aimed at enterprise managers in developing counties, this guide discusses how to make use of commercial possibilities of the Internet. It reviews fundamental technical concepts and aspects of the...

This trilingual directory (English, French and Spanish) lists associations by country with product groups of interest, classified according to the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC...

No longer can policies on population or development fail to take the needs and rights of women and girls into consideration. Such policies have not succeeded, cannot succeed nor are they just or...

Too often, the fight for women's empowerment is viewed as one for women to wage alone. This publication offers a discussion on the subject showing men to be essential partners in this struggle by...

Narrowing the gap between women's aspirations and their reproductive experiences will benefit both women and society. This publication offers a discussion in such areas as: poverty and inequality...

The challenge of the 21st century is to feed a world of between 8 and 10 billion people. Only the full involvement of women as equal partners can guarantee success. This publication offers a...

This publication takes a look at population and sustainable development five years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). It discusses such areas as new visions...

Agenda 21, the United Nations Programme of Action from the Rio Conference, notes in Chapter 5 that demographic trends and factors and sustainable development have a synergistic relationship. This...