EC policy and developing countries

Developing countries and the WTO: Policy approaches

Promoting Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: Policy Challenges

Promoting Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: Policy Challenges T RECENT ENTHUSIASM OF DONORS, DEVELOPMENT agencies and governments for promoting entrepreneurship as a route to development is perplexing. Entrepreneurs, called “heroes” by The Economist (14 March, 2009), appear upon closer scrutiny to be rather irrelevant and even impotent in many developing countries. Three decades ago, Na...

Agricultural Policy Choices in Developing Countries

The document contains ongoing work on an OECD project that examines the role of agricultural policies in raising incomes and reducing poverty in developing countries. A key focus is on ways in which the policy recommendations that the OECD has developed for its member countries might need to be qualified in the case of lower income developing countries. The paper is divided into two parts: Part...

Macroeconomics of fiscal policy in developing countries

This paper considers some aspects of the effects of fiscal policy on macroeconomic adjustment in developing countries. First, the paper reviews the notion of the fiscal deficit in the particular context of developing countries. It then spells out the conditions under which the internal and external debts are sustainable and points out the role of the “twin deficits”. The paper then presents som...

Telecommunications Development : Policy Recommendations for Developing Countries

Reform of the telecommunications sector has been a worldwide policy trend since the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan drastically reorganized their domestic industries in the early 1980s. Competition has been introduced into a previously monopolistic telecommunications market by many developing as well as industrialized countries. In earlier periods, however, telecommunications monopo...