The experience of the five examined industries (agro-food in Chile, cut flowers in Kenya, garment in Lesotho and in Mauritius and seafood in Thailand) demonstrates that non-traditional industries can emerge and achieved strong growth rates in very diverse settings in terms of geography and...

• Tariffs still matter. • Full tariff liberalisation to 2010 would generate dynamic welfare gains of $1 200 billion (at 1995 prices), equivalent to 3 per cent of World GDP in 2010, from greater efficiency and higher productivity. • Developing countries stand to gain relatively more from...

Private business activity, by creating and using “ideas”, drives economic growth in both rich and poor countries. Creating an enabling business environment is necessary but not sufficient for fostering the private sector in poor countries. Open dialogue, transparency, accountability and...

China is emerging as a leading Pacific economy in the 1990s. This paper examines the implications of China's entry into the world market for the OECD countries as well as for the regional economies of Asia and the Pacific. It argues that the shares of Asian countries in the OECD countries'...

Le processus de développement de l’Asie de l’Est est encore mal compris –notamment qu’il s’agit d’un développement séquentiel en grappe, effets d’osmose entre économies à niveaux différents de développement industriel. Il n’existe à ce jour aucune analyse systématique de...

Globalisation has brought benefits to the economies in the Black Sea Economic Co-operation (BSEC) and Central Asia (CA), but compounded volatility and uncertainty associated with the transition to market economy. Labour markets have been put under pressure, as BSEC-CA countries compete on the...

Dans les pays de l’OCDE comme dans les pays en développement, l’aide et les politiques commerciales peuvent se conforter mutuellement au bénéfice du développement, ou se substituer les unes aux autres. La manifestation d’une corrélation entre flux commerciaux et flux d’aide dépend...