Costa Rica and Mauritius have experienced dramatic growth in exports over the past three decades. They have done this mainly by finding new export products to supplement traditional agricultural exports and by exporting services and more manufactured goods. Exports from ...

The Competitiveness Initiative (TCI) project in Sri Lanka began organizing industry clusters and developing industry strategies at the end of 1999. Since then, USAID projects in many other countries have also pursued the cluster concept to promote competitiveness and encourage ...

This paper provides an overview of how developing countries can establish and improve trade policy coordination and dialogue. It describes challenges that developing countries trade institutions and organizations face, provides examples of how to build trade capacity and improve trade ...

Developing countries’ need for assistance with customs administration is growing rapidly. Assistance is needed especially to meet new commitments under the WTO and other international or regional agreements, and to meet the needs of an increasingly complex web of market ...

Textile and apparel producers face great uncertainty after January 1, 2005, when quotas that have long governed world trade in the industry are set to expire under an agreement signed 10 years ago. Some analysts predict catastrophic losses for developing ...

To lift its citizenry from poverty, Mozambique must grow quickly and sustain that growth over a number of years. At present, however, the internal market is too small and the purchasing power of Mozambican consumers too low to expand production ...