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Networks for Prosperity: Achieving Development Goals through Knowledge Sharing
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Networks for Prosperity: Achieving Development Goals through Knowledge Sharing
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The Impact of Institutions on Structural Change in Manufacturing: The Case of International Trade Regime in Textiles and Clothing. Research and Statistics Branch Staff Working Paper 25/2009
Four years after the ending of the quota-based trade regime in the textile and clothing sectors, this paper compares the ex-ante simulation estimates with the real trade data flows. The ex-post analysis shows that the ex-ante estimations are not fully borne out. (March 2010)
Structural Change in the World Economy: Main Features and Trends. Research and Statistics Branch Staff Working Paper 24/2009
This working paper presents a quantitative analysis of sectoral trends in the global economy. After surveying the relevant theoretical and empirical literature on structural change, the author discusses the historical evolution of agriculture, industry and services in terms of their share of world value added. (March 2010)
Industrial Development and the Dynamics of International Specialization Patterns. Research and Statistics Branch Staff Working Paper 23/2009
The authors investigate in this paper the complex relationship between industrial development and economic structure, by focusing on one of its trade implications, the effect of international specialization patterns on export performances of countries. (March 2010)
May 2010 Update for Complying with ISO/IEC 17025: A Practical Guidebook for Meeting the Requirements of Laboratory Accreditation Schemes Based on ISO/IEC 17025:2005 or Equivalent National Standards
Since the original preparation of this guide there have been developments in laboratory accreditation practice and in some of the associated standard documents. The update document has been prepared to be read alongside the hard copies of the original text to bring users of that text fully up to date.
Complying with ISO 17025: A Practical Guidebook for Meeting the Requirements of Laboratory Accreditation Schemes Based on ISO 17025:2005 or Equivalent National Standards
Complying with ISO 17025 is a guidebook written to assist testing and calibration laboratories set up a quality management system that conforms to ISO 17025:2005, the international standard for laboratory quality systems. Compliance with this standard provides a globally accepted basis for laboratory accreditation. (October 2009)
Agro-Value Chain Analysis and Development. The UNIDO Approach
This publication describes UNIDO’s approach to agro-value chain analysis and development. Its purpose is to promote a pragmatic scrutiny of value chain realities and opportunities in order to single out areas of possible performance improvement and consequently design custom-tailored projects to be supported jointly by donors and development partners. (2009)
Report on the Expert Group Meeting: Developing a Value Chain Diagnostics Tool for Common Practice at UNIDO
The Expert Group Meeting took place in Vienna on 23-25 September 2009. This report is targeted to those seeking to understand the process of the development of the Value Chain Diagnostic Tool and the contributions the Expert Group Meeting made to this. The report describes the discussions conducted over the course of the three days recounting the main inputs and essential discussions. (2009)
Value Chain Diagnostics for Industrial Development: Building Blocks for a Holistic and Rapid Analytical Tool
This paper reviews common practices of value chain analysis in academics and development practice and identifies opportunities for developing a rapid but holistic value chain diagnostic tool at UNIDO. (2009)
Skills for Peace and Income (SKIPI): Project on Multi-Skills Training and Community Service Facilities for Sustainable Livelihoods and Poverty Alleviation in Northern Uganda
The report explains the SKIPI programme, the overall objective of which is to contribute to the Government of Uganda’s efforts aimed at the social and economic reintegration of Ugandan military veterans, former rebels and their families into a productive civilian life and the eradication of poverty in particularly rural farming communities. (2009)
Bamboo Cultivation Manual: Guidelines for Cultivating Ethiopian Highland Bamboo
This manual provides basic information about Ethiopia’s highland bamboo species, and thereby aims to increase public awareness about this important natural resource. Practical guidelines for cultivating and managing highland bamboo are offered herein to help growers establish new plantations and manage existing bamboo stands. (2009)
Bamboo Cultivation Manual: Guidelines for Cultivating Ethiopian Lowland Bamboo
This manual provides basic information about Ethiopia’s lowland bamboo species, and aims to increase public awareness about this important natural resource. Practical guidelines for cultivating and managing lowland bamboo species are offered to help growers establish new plantations and manage existing bamboo forests. (2009)
Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI): Investment Opportunities for Development. Mekelle, Ethipia
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is an important driver of economic performance, as it is expected to improve directly industrial productivity growth by infusing new capital, technologies and managerial know-how, and by improving the average skills and efficiency levels of industry. UNIDO supports the MCI by identifying investment opportunities using its established tools and methodologies including the project appraisal software COMFAR. (November 2009)
Aid for Trade: A Global Call for Action. UNIDO’s Contribution
Aid for Trade has emerged at a critical juncture when many disadvantaged countries require assistance if they are to benefit from multilateral trade rules. UNIDO is mandated to promote industrial development in developing countries and is a crucial partner of the countries that require aid for trade and those that provide the financial resources. (November 2009)
Extraction Technologies for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
This book focuses on different techniques of hydrodistillation, steam distillation, cohobation and fractional distillation of volatile oils from aromatic plants and on water-solvent extraction and supercritical fluid extraction for medicinal plant extracts. It also discusses general, specific and advanced technologies for preparing extracts of medicinal plants and the extraction of volatile oils and fragrances from aromatic plants. (2008)
Greening of Industry under the Montreal Protocol. Background Paper
The side event to the International Conference on Green Industry in Asia, organized by UNIDO, will shed light on how the phase-out of CFCs solely through the Organization’s projects in more than 85 developing countries during the last 15 years has resulted in reduction of the climate impact of industry by the net equivalent of 360 million tons of CO2 annually. (August 2009)
Preparing for HCFC Phase-Out: Fundamentals of Uses, Alternatives, Implications and Funding for Article 5 Countries
The principal aim of this guide is to bring together in a single publication a broad range of information and guidance in sufficient detail to make it a useful reference tool for a relatively wide audience. This might include national consultants in Article 5 countries, ozone office staff, industry stakeholders, government representatives and other stakeholders in HCFC phase-out. (August 2009)
Manual on Operations under Multilateral Environmental Agreements
The Manual comprises two main parts: part one, dealing with the implementation modalities of the Montreal Protocol, and part two, dealing with practical guidelines for the preparation of a national implementation plan (NIP) and for post-NIP activities. (July 2009)
UNIDO and Energy Efficiency: A Low-Carbon Path for Industry
The UNIDO Industrial Energy Efficiency programme builds on more than three decades of experience and unique expertise in the field of sustainable industrial development. Combining the provision of policy development support services and capacity-building for all market players, UNIDO aims at removing the key barriers to continuous improvement of energy efficiency in industries and ultimately transforming the market for industrial energy efficiency. (June 2009)
Punjab Industrial Review
The objective of this study is to prepare a medium-term strategy for the recovery and growth of the industrial sector in Punjab against the backdrop of resurgent growth in the Indian economy, the improved performance of the industrial sector generally across India, and the expanding opportunities offered by the greater integration of the Indian economy with the rest of the world. (2009)
UNIDO and Renewable Energy: Greening the Industrial Agenda
UNIDO is a leading provider of services for improved industrial energy efficiency, enhanced use of renewable sources of energy and promotion of cleaner technologies. The report describes UNIDO’s activities to promote renewable energy. (2009)
Weaving a New Fabric of Small-Scale Agro-Industries in Northern Iraq
The brochure presents an ambitious joint project to revitalize the small-scale agro-industries sector in two of Northern Iraq’s governorates, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, recently completed by UNIDO and FAO. (March 2009)
Rising from the Rubble: War-Damaged Agro-Industries in Lebanon Bound for Recovery
The brochure details UNIDO support to war-damaged agro-industries in Lebanon and the groundwork for her economic recovery. (March 2009)
Training Manual on Sustainable Energy Regulation and Policymaking for Africa
This training package aims at reversing the existing lack of capacity and knowledge on how to foster regulatory and policy environments that will better aid the adoption of more economically (in the long term) and environmentally sustainable methods of energy supply and utilization, both in the industrial, commercial and urban domestic sectors and the rural energy environment in the developing countries. (Revision January 2009)
Public Goods For Economic Development: Compendium of Background Papers
In 2005, UNIDO initiated a research project on public goods for economic development, with the objective to contribute to the understanding of the role of public goods in economic development and how specific public goods, urgently needed for economic development, can be provided efficiently, within the context of intensified globalization. The ultimate goal of the research project was to inform policymaking at national, regional and international level, focusing on the United Nations system in particular.The Compendium brings together, in three parts, selected background papers in the context of this UNIDO research project. The first part presents papers addressing a number of specific thematic issues related to the five core thematic areas: financial stability, knowledge, market efficiency and integration, environment and global governance. The second includes regional studies. The third gives the deliberation for the 2005 UNIDO Conference on International Public Goods. These background papers, combined with a set of review literature on public goods in its modern use, and the deliberations of the UNIDO 2005 Conference on International Public Goods for Economic Development, were integrated in the final report "Public Goods for Economic Development".
CSR Perceptions and Activities of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Seven Geographical Clusters. Survey Report
Concentrating on UNIDO supported clusters of enterprises within one industrial sector; the authors investigated the behaviour of SMEs with respect to their social responsibility. Their findings derive from surveys conducted in India, Ecuador and Senegal, and are summarised in this consolidated report. (2008)
Energy, Development and Security. Energy Issues in the Current Macroeconomic Context
The report discusses the centrality of energy in meeting the challenges facing the international community and the importance of energy for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and addressing climate change. It calls for enhanced international cooperation and coordinated action within the United Nations system. (2008)
Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI): Investment Opportunities for Development
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is an important driver of economic performance, as it is expected to improve directly industrial productivity growth by infusing new capital, technologies and managerial know-how, and by improving the average skills and efficiency levels of industry. UNIDO supports the MCI by identifying investment opportunities using its established tools and methodologies including the project appraisal software COMFAR. (December 2008)
Fast Forward: National Standards Bodies in Developing Countries
An update of ISO Manual 1:1994, “Establishment and Management of a National Standards Body”. The publication covers the main principles of standardization at national, regional and international levels and illustrates the elements of structure from which it is necessary to choose in order to manage the process at a national level. (July 2008)
Agricultural Mechanization in Africa... Time for Action
UNIDO and FAO decided to convene an expert group meeting (EGM) with the objectives of reviewing the current situation and constraints on agricultural mechanization in Africa and of recommending ways through which these could be tackled to support economic growth and poverty reduction. This EGM, attended by participants from all over sub-Saharan Africa as well as other parts of the world, was held in Vienna, Austria on 29 to 30 November 2007. (2008)
Identification of Strategies for Developing the Cotton Value Chain in West and Central Africa: Based on a Comparative Study on India, Turkey and Egypt
This report is the result of a comparative study and evaluation made on the experiences of India, Turkey and Egypt in the formulation of strategies employed to develop the cotton sectors, particularly to enhance value addition at every stage of the value chain. (December 2007)
Country Programme of Cooperation between the Republic of India and UNIDO 2008-2012: Towards Inclusive Growth: Strengthening the Competitiveness and Productivity of Industrial Enterprises
The UNIDO Country Programme 2008-2012 aims at raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises through industrial policy advice, investment and technology promotion, technology-oriented initiatives to increase productivity, quality, energy efficiency, occupational health and safety and the environmental sustainability of industrial production. (April 2008)
Creating an Enabling Environment for Private Sector Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
The study argues that while constituting a necessary condition, business environment reforms alone will ultimately not be sufficient to foster enterprise development in sub-Saharan Africa in a broad way, and hence require supplementary action at other fronts. (April 2008)
Explaining Productivity Change in Morocco. Research and Statistics Branch Staff Working Paper 09/2007
The first half of the paper estimates and analyses productivity change in Morocco. It begins with a Solow sources-of-growth analysis, which shows that total factor productivity (TFP) growth is a significant contributor to overall economic growth. (April 2008)
World Productivity Database: a Technical Description. Research and Statistics Branch Staff Working Paper 10/2007
This paper introduces a new unique database, the World Productivity Database (WPD), which contains information on levels and growth of aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) for as many as 112 countries, covering 1960 to 2000. (April 2008)
Downloading Data from the World Productivity Database: User Guide. Research and Statistics Branch Staff Working Paper 11/2007
This paper functions as a tutorial as how to retrieve data from the World Productivity Database. More specifically, it informs on the available data and, briefly, how these were constructed and estimated, how to operate the screens and how the output can be organized. (May 2008)