The Competitiveness Initiative (TCI) project in Sri Lanka began organizing industry clusters and developing industry strategies at the end of 1999. Since then, USAID projects in many other countries have also pursued the cluster concept to promote competitiveness and encourage … Read More
This paper provides an overview of how developing countries can establish and improve trade policy coordination and dialogue. It describes challenges that developing countries trade institutions and organizations face, provides examples of how to build trade capacity and improve trade … Read More
Developing countries’ need for assistance with customs administration is growing rapidly. Assistance is needed especially to meet new commitments under the WTO and other international or regional agreements, and to meet the needs of an increasingly complex web of market … Read More
Textile and apparel producers face great uncertainty after January 1, 2005, when quotas that have long governed world trade in the industry are set to expire under an agreement signed 10 years ago. Some analysts predict catastrophic losses for developing … Read More
To lift its citizenry from poverty, Mozambique must grow quickly and sustain that growth over a number of years. At present, however, the internal market is too small and the purchasing power of Mozambican consumers too low to expand production … Read More
2002 Regional cooperation as a means for small developing countries to their meet international trade goals has not been effective. The most useful trade capacity-building occurs at the country level. Although donors encourage regional cooperation by providing substantial resources, results … Read More
Sri Lanka has a promising opportunity to compete in information and communications technology (ICT). International companies are seeking high-quality, cost-effective providers of ICT products and services and increasingly choose offshore providers. Sri Lankan firms have made a good start as … Read More
2002 This short paper presents trends in the uses and perceived value of agricultural credit in developing economies and suggests some aspects worthy of further investigation.
Partnering with Microsoft to Create Value in the Web Services Ecosystem, was released in July at Fusion 2001. It explains how the extensible markup language (XML) revolution is changing the information technology (IT) services ecosystem, describes the emerging ecosystem, analyzes … Read More
2001 Developing countries seek liberalization in many different services sectors but construction, maritime, and tourism appear to have the most support.