The practices originate from very different regions, but all aim at helping new companies through the practical difficulties they face during their creation and early growth periods. Over the past five years, some 1400 contributors identified and analysed over 300 methodologies and good...

This report presents a set of sustainable development indicators which have been developed for the non-energy extractive industry. It is the result of a voluntary initiative to produce 20 indicators describing the economic, social and environmental performance of the industry. The report covers...

This paper discusses the channels between openness and productivity and trade hampering factors. The stylized facts from the heterogeneous firms literature suggests that firms face market entry costs for each new product they export and to each new export market. Transport costs, border costs...