This article looks back at the development of policies for the promotion of industry in the Basque Country, taking into account the social and economic situation at each relevant time and the manner in which current policy measures are conditioned by past events. To that end, it begins with a...

Discusses the financial significance of Uganda's flower industry, employment practices and working conditions there in, and government policies.

Includes the text of the ILO Recommendation concerning General Conditions to Stimulate Job Creation in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, 1998 (No.189).

Reviews problems and needs of a number of Thai urban-based micro and small enterprises (MSEs). Based upon a survey of MSEs in Bangkok and urban Phetchaburi, carried out during April-June 1999. Includes the text of ILO Recommendation concerning General Conditions to Stimulate Job Creation in...

Reviews international best practice in the area of business development services (BDS) for small and medium-sized enterprises and assesses the potential for replication of some of the more promising approaches in Thailand. Includes the text of the ILO Recommendation concerning General Conditions...

Ziel dieser Territorialisierungsstudie ist es, klare und zuverlässige Daten über die Konsequenzen der „Territorialisierung“ zu liefern, wie sie durch gewisse staatliche Beihilfeprogramme zur Unterstützung der Filmwirtschaft vorgeschrieben wird. Ergebnisse der Studie: 1 Eine objektive und...

The establishment of the Government Industrial Institute in Madras in 1919 coincided with the development of chemical engineering as a distinct discipline at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It would thus be unhistorical to expect that ready made chemical engineering expertise would...

This report analyses the informal sector of Benin in 1985. A first part examines the characteristics and potentialities of the sector as an important provider of productive employment, training and contributor to rapid economic growth. The second part studies the constraints of the production...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on computer aided manufacturing, management information systems and specific industry restructuring in Belgium - based on case studies of the introduction of information technology and microelectronics innovations in the iron and steel industry and the textile...

In most cases, the premature announcement of a future product cannot be anti-competitive. When there are network effects, however, firms may have incentives to strategically prenannounce products; such preannouncements are often referred to as "vaporware." Anticompetitive vaporware allegations...