Policy Notes

August 2010	Economic Premise 27: Can Carbon Labeling Be Development Friendly? Recommendations on How to Improve Emerging Schemes by Paul Brenton, Gareth Edwards-Jones, and Michael F. Jensen
June 2010	Economic Premise 18: Trade and the Competitiveness Agenda by José Guilherme Reis and Thomas Farole
March 2010	Economic Premise 5: China’s Investment in African Special Economic Zones: Prospects, Challenges, and Opportunities by Deborah Brautigam, Thomas Farole and Tang Xiaoyang
March 2007	PSD Note 315: Financing Innovation by Jae Hoon Yoo
November 2006	PSD Note 313: Entrepreneurship by Leora Klapper
September 2006	Trade Note 30: Export Promotion Agencies - What Works and What Does Not by Daniel Lederman
September 2006	Trade Note 29: Export Financing for SMEs - The Role of Factoring by Leora Klapper
March 2006	Trade Note 26: Why Market Access is the Most Important of Agriculture? by Kim Anderson and Will Martin
September 2005	Trade Note 25: Food Safety and Agricultural Health Standards and Developing Country Exports - Rethinking the Impacts and the Policy Agenda by Steven Jaffee
August 2005	PSD Note 298: Informality by Vincent Palmade & Andrea Anayiotas
September 2004	PSD Note 273: FDI Trends by Vincent Palmade & Andrea Anayiotas
July 2004	PREM Note 89: Good Practice in Trade Facilitation - Lessons from Tunisia by Hamid Alavi
September 2003	Trade Note 11: Services in a Developement Round by Aaditya Mattoo
April 2002	PREM Note 67: Best Practices in Customs Reform - Lessons from Morocco by Luc de Wulf and Emile Finateau
September 2001	PREM Note 56: Why Have Trade Promotion Organizations Failed, and How Can They Be Revitalized? by Luc de Wulf
May 2001	PREM Note 53: Increasing the Effectiveness of Preshipment Inspection Services by Mark Dutz
October 2000	PSD Note 221: Regulating Quality by Bill Baker & Sophie Tremolet
December 1998	PREM Note 11: Export Processing Zones by Dorsati Madani
April 1998	PREM Note 3: Trade and the East Asian Crisis by Bernard Hoekman and Will Martin
April 1995	PSD Note 44: Regulatory Barriers on SME Finance by Heywood Fleisig

PREM Notes summarize good practices and key policy findings on economic policy related topics. The current collection covers topics such as EPZ, trade promotion, pre-shipment inspections, pre-shipment finance, and country case studies from Asia and the Middle East.

Trade Notes summarize recent research on global trade issues. The current collection covers topics such as export finance, export promotion agencies, safety standards, market access issues, and the Doha round.

PSD Notes cover private sector development issues related to export competitiveness including foreign direct investment, regulations on quality, SMEs, informality, etc.

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