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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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

This directory lists enterprises by country, with full address information (as available), type of activity and products handled. It also lists enterprises by product group and in alphabetical order.

This Thesaurus presents terms for use in trade information services. It also covers other documentation on subjects related to international trade, with particular reference to trade development...