Many surveys and studies in Mozambique have identified barriers to private investment, the negative side of the business environment. Yet hardly any information is available on what actually motivates investors to commit resources to opportunities in Mozambique, the positive side ...

Development assistance is intended to foster conditions in which people prosper and governments provide essential services to all citizens without reliance on foreign aid. The fundamental condition is economic growth. This series of 10 briefing notes, produced by Nathan Associates ...

What is an authorized economic operator? Anyone moving goods across borders who meets internationally recognized standards for supply chain security: manufacturers, importers, exporters, brokers, carriers, consolidators, intermediaries, ports, airports, terminal operators, integrated operators, warehouses, and distributors. Through AEO programs, customs ...

Thomas Timberg It’s true that governments and non-profit institutions perform certain functions because markets and pursuit of profit can’t do everything. It’s also true that many social needs are met on a market basis most of the time by competing ...

Developing countries submitted negotiating proposals on various agricultural topics for WTO talks in 2001. Among the issues they advocated were binding preferential market access in developed country markets, eliminating domestic subsidies in developed country markets but allowing developing countries to ...

This report presents the findings, conclusions, and recommendations arising from an assessment of economic growth and conflict sponsored by USAID/Sri Lanka in October and November 2006. The goal of the assessment was to develop recommendations for a robust yet conflict-sensitive ...