This paper examines trends in agro-commodity trade over the decade to 2005, in relation to the changing patterns of import demand and price trends, globally and in Developing Asia. It also examines the performance of 'commodity-dependent developing countries' (CDDCs) in agrocommodity trade. It...

This DIIS report examines US trade policy during the first ten months of Donald Trump's presidency, up to early November 2017. It identifies the main points of Trump's trade policy and compares them to mainstream US trade policy since the 1970s. It then documents the extent to which they have...

Labour market segmentation in developing countries has been considered in a growing literature, some of which suggests an informal sector wage premium. However, such studies have mainly focused on urban labour markets and have not discriminated between the informally self-employed and wage...

Contract farming is often seen as a panacea to many of the challenges faced by agricultural production in developing countries. Given the large heterogeneity of contract farming arrangements, it is debatable whether all kinds of contract farming arrangements offer benefits to participating...

Economic opinion is in the process of re-interpreting low levels of uptake of non-reciprocal pre-ferential trade agreements (PTAs) partly in terms of administrative barriers to preference utiliza-tion. Primary amongst these barriers are Rules of Origin. This paper reviews the literature on Rules...

This paper identifies the rationale behind the emergence of private sector development (PSD) as a special area of development assistance. It describes PSD policies’ main elements and instruments and provides an overview of the differences and similarities between the PSD activities of...

This report reviews international experiences with pro-poor development assistance to export sectors. Such support has become more common in the last 15 years, following the emergence of widespread consensus amongst policymakers that export growth can be a key poverty reduction mechanism....

Der Reader ist aus einem Seminar über "The Social and Political Context of Structural Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa" in Bergen (Norwegen) im Oktober 1990 hervorgegangen. Seine Artikel diskutieren die sozialen und politischen Aus- und Rückwirkungen von Strukturanpassungspolitik, insbesondere...