Well-managed tourism can be an important contributor to sustainable development, providing incentives to protect the environment and maintain biodiversity, while fostering small business development. A recently completed subcomponent of Ecuador's International Trade and Integration Project,...

This paper presents the Bolivia-Brazil Pipeline Project (GASBOL) as a case study for environmental and social safeguards analysis. The primary purpose of the GASBOL project was to supply the Brazilian market with Bolivian gas. The pipeline runs from Rio Grande, Bolivia, to Porto Alegre, Brazil,...

In Korea, around 3.1 million small enterprises (99.2 percent of the total) operate with less than 50 employees. Micro & small businesses (MSBs), however, have lagged well behind in the adoption of IT, largely due to insufficient financial, human and technological resources. To address this,...