This paper offers proposals to make support services more effective through outside assistance. Especially recommended are packages of assistance and promotion built around grant funds that pay firms half the cost of commercial service suppliers, such as consultants, and/or half of their initial marketing expenses.

Presents evidence confirming the existence of a wide array of policy options for increasing business competitiveness and reducing dependence on primary commodities in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The conclusions of past research and priorities for future research on the relationship between health and economic development: the effects of development on health and the effects of health on development.

This paper provides an overview of the existing state of fiscal federalism in Brazil and suggests directions for change.

One challenge of the transition of socialist economies to multiparty democracy and a market economy will be to reallocate labor while minimizing the social costs of unemployment. Vodopivec identifies the key issues of labor reform and makes policy recommendations.

Export promotion covers various fiscal, commercial and exchange rate measures that governments can take to ensure some neutrality when comparing domestic and export markets. These essays discuss export promotion and its pros and cons.