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LINKS

Asia Development Bank

Private Sector Development Page

Development Gateway

Homepage

Institute for Liberty and Democracy

Homepage

International Labor Organization

Homepage

Labor Statistics

Key Indicators of the Labor Market   (KILM)

Swedish International Development Cooperation (SIDA)

Making Markets Work for the Poor

UNESCO

Suresh Munbodh, Mobile Unit for the Informal Sector
A UNESCO workshop paper on the basics of the informal sector.

Meeting of Experts on Women in the Informal Sector
A synthesis of the meeting convened by UNESCO in 1995.

UNIDO

Private Sector Development Page

United States Department of Commerce

Country Commercial Guides & Market Research Data
A very useful compendium of international market research online.

World Bank

Business Environment and Enterprise Project Survey (BEEPS)
Jointly owned by EBRD-World Bank, the BEEPS is similar to the WBES but highlights some transitional economies: Turkey, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.

Economic Growth & Poverty Alleviation
Includes a wealth of links and academic papers on economic growth in developing countries.

Governance Research Indicator Country Snapshot (GRICS)
For 200 countries, the World Bank has aggregated data for six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption.

Measuring the Size of Informal Sector
World Bank Group page that mostly refers to International Labor Organization pages and a few academic papers; an excellent primer on informality.

Private Sector Development
The World Bank's page on private sector development.

World Business Environment Survey (WBES, 2000)
A comprehensive survey of over 10,000 firms in 80 countries. Firms respond to questions on the investment climate and business environment, ranging from financing issues to legal recourse to corruption.

World Development Report

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Anderson, Robert E. (2004)
Just Get Out of the Way: How Government Can Help Business in Poor Countries

Collier, Paul & David Dollar (2002)
Globalization, Growth, and Poverty: Building an Inclusive World Economy (World Bank Policy Research Report)

Easterly, William (2001)
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

Fairbanks, Michael & Stace Lindsay (1997)
Plowing the Sea: Nurturing the Hidden Sources of Growth in the Developing World

Fields, Gary S. & Guy Pfeffermann (2003)
Pathways Out of Poverty: Private Firms and Economic Mobility in Developing Countries

Fukuyama, Francis (1996)
Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity

Harrison, Lawrence E. & Samuel P. Huntington (2001)
Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress

van der Hoeven, Rolph & Anthony Shorrocks (1996)
Perspectives on Growth and Poverty

Klein, Michael U. & Bita Hadjimichael (2003)
The Private Sector in Development: Entrepreneurship, Regulation & Competitive Disciplines

Prahald, C.K (2004)
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits

Rajan, Ravi & Luigi Zingales (2003)
Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists: Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity

Sen, Amartya Kumar (1999)
Development As Freedom

de Soto, Hernando (2003)
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

Stern, Nicholas (2002)
A Strategy for Development

World Bank Publications (2003)
Doing Business in 2004: Understanding Regulation

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