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Applying ISO 9000 Quality Management Systems

Series: Trade Support Services
( Print: October 2001 )

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 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...


Export Credit Insurance and Guarantee Schemes

A Practical Guide for Developing and Transitional Economies

Series: Trade Support Services
( Print: October 2001 )

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 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...


Food Packaging

A Reference Book for Trainers

Series: Trade Support Services
( Print: November 2001 )

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...

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...


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Beyond Violence

Conflict Resolution Process in Northern Ireland

Series: UNU Policy Perspectives
( Print: November 2002 )

After almost thirty years of bloody conflict, the opposing parties in Northern Ireland eventually signed an agreement about how to share power, thus bringing to an end the conflict that had claimed...

After almost thirty years of bloody conflict, the opposing parties in Northern Ireland eventually signed an agreement about how to share power, thus bringing to an end the conflict that had claimed...


Global Financial Turmoil and Reform

A United Nations Perspective

Series: UNU Policy Perspectives
( Print: July 1999 )

As Asia's financial and economic crisis which started in 1997, deepened and spread around the world, United Nations economists on five continents shared notes to understand the upheaval and suggest...

As Asia's financial and economic crisis which started in 1997, deepened and spread around the world, United Nations economists on five continents shared notes to understand the upheaval and suggest...


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Inter-linkages

The Kyoto Protocol and the International Trade and Investment Regimes

Series: UNU Policy Perspectives
( Print: June 2001 )

In 1997, delegates to the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed by consensus to adopt the Kyoto Protocol under which...

In 1997, delegates to the third session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed by consensus to adopt the Kyoto Protocol under which...


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Export Quality Management

Resource Material for Training Activities

Series: Trade Support Services
( Print: November 2001 )

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 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...


How to Evaluate Trade Credit Requests

A Guide for Bankers and the Scorecard - A Risk Analysis Tool

Series: Trade Support Services
( Print: November 2001 )

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...

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...


International Commercial Sale of Perishable Goods

Model Contract and Users' Guide

Series: Trade Support Services
( Print: October 2001 )

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...

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...


Glossary of Packaging Terms for Developing Countries

Series: Trade Support Services
( Print: October 2001 )

This trilingual illustrated glossary of packaging terms is presented in English, French and Spanish. The terms appear in alphabetical order.

This trilingual illustrated glossary of packaging terms is presented in English, French and Spanish. The terms appear in alphabetical order.


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Financing for Development

Proposals from Business and Civil Society

Series: UNU Policy Perspectives
( Print: January 2002 )

In Financing for Development, twenty-one authors, including business executives and civil-society activists from developing and developed countries, address the question of how to boost the financing...

In Financing for Development, twenty-one authors, including business executives and civil-society activists from developing and developed countries, address the question of how to boost the financing...