Worldwide, 600 million jobs are needed over the next 15 years to keep employment rates at
their current level. Because most employment in low and middle income countries is in micro …

The role of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) has been recognized in Ethiopia at the
strategic and policy levels. They are considered as a way to create jobs, alleviate poverty …

Technologies related to Industry 4.0 require Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to
understand their potential applications before they are adopted. In this paper, we test …

Relying on a novel dataset covering more than 120,000 firms in 60 countries, this paper
contributes to the debate about policies to support businesses through the COVID-19 …

We advance a two-stage theoretical model which contends that the export performance of
emerging economy firms (EEFs) will depend both upon their firm-specific capabilities and …

The African Economic Outlook is the only annual report that monitors in detail the economic
performance of 53 individual countries on the continent, using a strictly comparable …

Latin America and the Caribbean is a middle-income region. The typical country in the
region has an income per capita about 25 percent above the typical country in the world, but …

El surgimiento de las cadenas globales de valor está permitiendo que las naciones que se
vinculan a ellas se industrialicen a un ritmo mucho más acelerado que el que necesitarían …

Las políticas industriales a menudo han causado más daño que beneficio. El nuevo marco
conceptual presentado en este libro permite a los países adoptar las políticas de desarrollo …

Academic and corporate interest in supplier development and buyer-supplier relationship
has increased substantially in recent years. This paper provides a framework for analysing …