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...

Covers the period from 1980s to end of 1990s.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the effect of taxation and subsidy programmes on income distribution in Sri Lanka - examines tax revenue (covering import tax, consumption tax, licence taxes and income tax), and public expenditure on basic needs (incl. Food subsidies, health, transport, social...

Considers the effect on income, income distribution, production, employment and the environment, of major technological changes in agriculture which have occurred in villages located on the floodplains in the Kushtia region and the Chittagong Hill Districts. Based on surveys carried out in...