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Information, ICTs and Small Enterprise: Lessons from Botswana
Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999The potential contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to small enterprise development can only be assessed by first understanding current information practices and needs in such enterprises.DocumentAssessing Globalization: briefing papers
Development Economics Vice Presidency, World Bank, 2000Series of World Bank Briefing Papers looks at how to define globalization and then assesses three leading questions about globalization by looking at the evidence from a large number of countries. Is globalization increasing world poverty?DocumentBudgets as if people mattered: democratizing macroeconomic policies
Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000The concept of 'budgets as if people mattered' is inspired by a large number of initiatives that have emerged around the world during the last fifteen years to examine public budgets through a poverty or gender lens.DocumentForeign Direct Investment in India: Issues and Problems.
Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000Attempts to identify the issues and problems associated with India’s current foreign direct investment regime, and more importantly the other associated factors responsible for India’s unattractiveness as an investment location.Despite India offering a large domestic market, rule of law, low labor costs, and a well working democracy, her performance in attracting FDI flows has been far from satDocumentThe status of sector wide approaches: a framework paper
Overseas Development Institute, 2000Paper is an outcome of the informal Like-Minded Donor Working Group on the Implementation of Sector Wide Approaches (SWA).DocumentThe Political Economy of Policy Failure in Zambia
Swedish Working Papers in Economics, 2000Zambia’s experience in the 1990s illustrates that, on their own, policy changes will not redress decades of mismanagement, especially when the degree of commitment of the elite remains unaltered.In 1991, the Movement for Multiparty Democracy won the elections on a reform platform, promising to reverse the economic decline and to introduce more inclusive politics.DocumentDeveloping countries: debt relief initiative for poor countries faces challenges
Government Accountability Office, US Congress, 2000Official report prepared for the US Congress.DocumentGuide to World Trading Syetem
World Trade Net, 2000Intended to help firms to better understand how the multilateral trade system works and how it affects the business of export and import. Covers: TradingStrategyProductsPricingDistributionPromotionDocumentGlobal Financial Crises: Institutions and Incentives
International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2000Argues that the recommendations of the Meltzer Committee report (unconditional financial support for pre-qualifying countries) would lead to an increase in financial stability. There is a need for an effective lender of last resort and for debt restructuring systems.