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This handbook deals with basic concepts of quality control and quality management. It explains structure and content of the ISO 9000 standards and discusses the establishment, implementation, auditing...

This Guide explains the functions and priorities in assessing the needs and constraints prior to establishing export credit agencies. It discusses the legal infrastructure and funding; required...

This book is aimed at trainers concerned with food packaging. It deals with main packaging materials; transport and retail packages; package presentation; controls, regulations and standards, quality...

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...

The 2017 Commodities and Development Report investigates the transmission channels through which commodity dependence affects micro- and macro-level development outcomes, examines long-term commodity...

Smallholder farmers constitute the largest contingent of the poor and yet they produce more than 80 per cent of the world's food, in value terms. Though there are marked differences by country and...

The Commodities and Development Report 2012, released during the 13th session of UNCTAD, shows that developing countries suffer from high prices for commodities and food, in particular Least Developed...

This report highlights pathways to economic diversification in commodity-dependent developing countries in an environment where decarbonization of the global economy has become the overarching...

Commodity dependence is a trap: once a country is commodity dependent, it is difficult to develop a productive sector out of commodities and export non-commodity products. This publication argues that...

This report explores key aspects of the two-way relationship between commodities and climate change, discusses the concept of natural resource conversion and explores its application to renewable and...

This book discusses basic concepts of quality management, based on internationally accepted principles and practice, and examines their implication for the export function. It covers various aspects...

This guide provides the know-how to assess requests for trade credit from enterprises in developing and transition countries. It discusses basic lending facilities and practices involved in commercial...

The Model contract proposes conditions compatible with international trade conventions and usages, presenting the legal framework applicable to the international delivery of goods and payments. The...

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 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 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 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...

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 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...