Based on data from 13 assessments of business development services (BDS) markets. Explores the stage of development of various BDS markets and examines how organizations can assess the potential for their development. Discusses common preconceptions about BDS markets and identifies similarities...

Although little talked about in contemporary economics, the collection of principles popularly known as Say‟s Law were profoundly influential upon economists of the classical era. Kates (1997), who has quite a bit to say on the subject and receives much attention here, ascribes such importance...

The central point of this paper is the demonstration that there is a real world supply and demand theory, supported by an estimate of the US aggregate supply curve. The fundamental idea is that demand and supply interaction is the smallest economic act, an act without which there would be no...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper, capital goods, technology, industrial development, trends, 1955-1978, Colombia - supply and demand, choice of product, Innovation, technology transfer, obstacles, tariff policy, research policy. Bibliography, diagram, statistical tables.

Based on a questionnaire survey of 30 banks and related financial institutions in Ha Noi, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho. Identifies the credit demand by micro and small enterprises versus the lending supply by banks and credit or donor institutions. Recommends provision of appropriate training...

Based on a questionnaire survey of 30 banks and related financial institutions in Ha Noi, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho. Identifies the credit demand by micro and small enterprises versus the lending supply by banks and credit or donor institutions. Recommends provision of appropriate training...

Using the ILO's database constructed for the purpose of its global estimate on trafficking and forced labour, examines the determinants of one specific form of human trafficking, namely trafficking for forced sexual exploitation.