This study presents a tool to help design logical frameworks for results-based management of aid for trade. What are donors and partner countries trying to achieve? Three different levels of possible objectives (i.e. direct, intermediate and final) are explored. Trade is treated as an...

Reviews the debate and the frameworks in terms of the concept of catching up, the policy issues raised, and the principles guiding the design of industrial policies. Provides a comparative analysis between the growth perspective and the institutional economics approach, draws lessons for the...

ILO pub. Article on employment trends in the Mexico City urban area - examines its economic development and industrial development from 1921 to 1980, showing how the rapid population growth of the urban population through extensive rural migration and high birth rates affected employment...

Messages from the Progress report -- What needs to be done, and by whom? -- Ownership -- Alignment using national development strategies and country systems -- Harmonization -- Managing for development results -- Mutual accountability -- Sector perspectives -- The roles of civil society...