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Electronic Commerce and Music Business Development in Jamaica

A Portal to the New Economy

Series: Technology for Development Series

( Print: September 2002 )

For many developing countries, including Jamaica, electronic commerce and music have been identified as an important new trading opportunity that provides one of the fastest means of penetrating...

Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2002

Series: Reports of the Economic and Social Council

( Print: January 2005 )

Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2002, General Assembly Official Records, Fifty-seventh session. 

Partnerships and Networking in Science and Technology for Development

Series: Technology for Development Series

( Print: June 2002 )

The proliferation of inter-firm partnerships in the past few decades has raised expectations of accelerated growth and opportunities for developing countries in their efforts to catch up. However...

Changing Dynamics of Global Computer Software and Services Industry

Implications for Developing Countries

Series: Technology for Development Series

( Print: June 2002 )

The computer software industry has the potential to become one of the most internationally dispersed high-tech industries. The last two decades saw high growth rates of this sector and a dramatic...

Democracy in Latin America

(Re)Constructing Political Society

Series: Changing Nature of Democracy, The

( Print: March 2002 )

(Re)democratization in much of Latin America has had to confront a legacy of civil war or political repression, as well as the social dilemmas inherent in the integration of the region into the global...

Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2009

Series: Reports of the Economic and Social Council

( Print: July 2010 )

Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2009, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-fourth session. 

Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2010

Series: Reports of the Economic and Social Council

( Print: June 2011 )

Official Records of the Economic and Social Council for 2010, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-fifth session. 

Democratic Process and the Market, The

Challenges of the Transition

Series: Changing Nature of Democracy, The

( Print: November 1999 )

The transition of the former socialist countries and East and Central Europe to a pluralistic, democratic system of governance and a modern market economy has involved historically-unparalleled...

Democracy Governance and Economic Performance

East and Southeast Asia

Series: Changing Nature of Democracy, The

( Print: April 2000 )

In a number of states of East and Southeast Asia, democratization occurred or was consolidated in the early 1990s but irrespective of the level of democratization, economic performance has been a...

Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2015

Series: Reports of the Economic and Social Council

( Print: July 2016, PDF: July 2016 )

Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2015, General Assembly Official Records, Seventieth Session. 

Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2014

Series: Reports of the Economic and Social Council

( Print: November 2015 )

Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2014, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-ninth session. 

Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2011

Series: Reports of the Economic and Social Council

( Print: February 2012 )

Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2011, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-sixth session. 

Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2012

Series: Reports of the Economic and Social Council

( Print: August 2014, PDF: September 2014 )

Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2012, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-seventh session.

Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2013

Series: Reports of the Economic and Social Council

( Print: August 2014, PDF: December 2015 )

Official Records of the Report of the Economic and Social Council for 2013, General Assembly Official Records, Sixty-eighth session.

Democratization in the Middle East

Experiences, Struggles, Challenges

Series: Changing Nature of Democracy, The

( Print: April 2003 )

This publication addresses a number of key issues that would determine the success or failure of sustainable democratization in the countries of the Middle East. Drawing on conceptual and country...