Over the past 25 years, the development industry has come under extensive criticism for its track record of achievement (or lack of) in producing a sustained improvement of living conditions in many of the countries that have been recipients of sizeable volumes of development aid. This article...

There is pressure from the developed world and indeed from within the under-developed/developing world to put in place IP regimes which are trade and investment friendly, and, primarily, based on western models of intellectual property rights, economic values and social organization. Pacific...

Private sector development (PSD) has taken on an increasingly prominent role in both the debates as well as budgets of international development cooperation in recent years. While the promotion of private sector activities in developing countries has for a long time been part of development...