Assesses how regional financial institutions can help developing countries, often at a disadvantage within the global financial framework, finance their investment needs, counteract the volatility of private capital flows, and make their voices heard.
Nations Economic Commission for Western Asia. The book presents 24 papers that cover concerns in technology transfer in the Arab world. The coverage of the book includes established patterns of technology acquisition in the Arab world; possible mechanisms for the transfer and development of technology; and the transfer of technology and investment policy design. The selection also presents arti…
During the early 1990s, the Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS), a joint facility of the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), found that governments and foreign investors alike were concerned and frustrated about difficulties in successfully implementing private infrastructure projects. Governments were trying to attract these new types of investment without having…
A respected international economic advisor and the director of The Earth Institute shares a wide-spectrum theory about how to enable economic success throughout the world, identifying the different categories into which various nations fall in today's economy while posing solutions to top political, environmental, and social problems that contribute to poverty.
This report brings together in printed form the essential content of the series of seminars which formed phase 2 of a project 'Transfer of technology and promotion of demand: zinc die casting'. This project was financed by the Common Fund for Commodities and supervised by the international Lead Zinc Study Group. The aim was to train technologists from selected developing countries to take advan…
This book contains: 1. Global review of coconut lethal yellowing and similar cononut diseases associated with phytoplasma 2. Coconut global research for development progamme 3. Update on CLY research 4. Pathogen and epidemiology 5. Vectors Etc.
The workshop discussed the major constraints to the provision of agricultural input credit and made recommendations for restructuring and re-launching the sector. The constraints could be classified into four major categories depending on the perceived source of the problem: (a) Effects of poor planning and implementation of trade liberalization,, (b) The attitude of financial institutions tow…
This book teaches us about balancing work and family demands - Negotiating networks, setting goals, cutting back. Through this book we hope it will help raise awareness and, at least on a small scale, influence the shape of FTAs to better serve the public interest.
The book is an attempt to analyse recent trends in the nuclear non-proliferation diplomacy after the Gulf crisis, with a focus on efforts to strengthen the nuclear export control regime, IAEA 'Special Inspections hased on satellite intelligence, and US policy of establishing regional nuclear nonproliferation regimes. An attempt has been made to examine how the nuclear nonproliferation regime ha…
Part I describes Indonesian government policies for national growth and the resulting economic development. This is presented in the hope it may be of use to other NAM countries. Economic policies have been formulated to induce a significant increase in investment and to support rapid economic growth. The main objective was to achieve a rate of capital growth exceeding that of population growth…