Provides a synthesis of the findings from the WED (Women's Enterprise Development) Study entitled "Job, Gender and Small Enterprises in Africa", carried out in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia in 2002. Identifies ways in which governments, the ILO, donors, NGOs and the private sector can improve...

Discusses how the top contract manufacturers in the electronics industry try to become providers of electronic manufacturing services by deepening and broadening the rage of services that they offer and by diversifying into markets other than computing and telecommunications.

Based on information collected through 12 case studies for which questionnaires were sent to the leading Italian civil engineering and heavy engineering firms involved in work overseas, research studies and interviews with major construction firms in Korea and results of a survey of the top ten...

Deals with unregulated but legal financial entities operating in the semi-formal financial sector, essentially membership-based self-help organizations and outside assistance-based nongovernmental organizations. Provides a framework of questions and indicators to form the basis for a monitoring...

Examines the social consequences of restructuring and investigates the role social dialgue can play in finding socially responsible ways to mitigate the effects of restructuring. Includes brief comparisons with the banking and financial services industry, postal services and public utilities.

Drawing on the experience of semi-industrialised countries in technological accumulation, discusses how developing countries can take better advantage of foreign technology. Considers in particular how domestic technological capabilities and skills can be mobilised.