The objective of this report is to explore firm competitiveness, the investment climate, and growth in Malaysia. This …

This study, competitiveness of the value chain of the agricultural sector in Cameroon, aims to help the Government … national, regional or international competitiveness of six value chains of the agricultural sector. This paper examines family …, palm oil, plantain and poultry. The primary purpose of this study of competitiveness is to identify products and operating …

"Infrastructure projects are often technically complicated and highly customized. Therefore, procurement competition … suggests that quality is of particular importance in large infrastructure projects and auctioneers cannot easily substitute …

infrastructure services. In this paper, we use Demographic and Health Surveys from a larger sample of sub-Saharan African countries …) telephone has increased rapidly. The decline has been primarily in the urban areas while the infrastructure coverage has either … community to progressively increase access to modern infrastructure services in Africa. "--World Bank web site …

"The paper's objective is to explain factors underlying Africa's weak infrastructure endowment and to identify suitable … infrastructure goals for the region based on benchmarking against international peers. The authors use a dataset covering the stocks … of key infrastructure-including information and communication technology (ICT), power, roads, and water-across 155 …