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During the past 10/15 years, the efforts of NGOs, bilateral and multilateral agencies, to assist in supporting small and medium enterprise development have produced a number of lessons learned and best practices now available as documents, reports and publications. This page lists and rates electronic resources related to publications in the field of enterprise development.

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Last updated December 6th 2011

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ICM Bibliography The Informal Credit Homepage not only includes an extensive bibliography on financial markets but also key documents related to microcredit and microfinance. A "Must" IDB's Publications Publications of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in the areas of environment and natural resources, social programs, financial markets and infrastructure, indigenous people and community development, microenterprise and women in development. The documents are presented in five categories: Best Practices and Guidelines; Working Papers, Background Papers and Technical Studies; Strategies and Policies; Books and Magazines; and Newsletters. Finance & Development Finance & Development is published on the Web, quarterly in English, by the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Even though you have to order (and pay) some of the publications, what is available on site makes it an essential reading. In addition to going directly to the topic of your choice, or exploring the site on a geographical basis, you can also click on the What's New image on the left. This will lead you to a list of the recently added sites. On average 15/20 new sites are reviewed each month. Do not forget to send us your suggestions. UNIDO's Industrial Development Abstracts Database The IDA contains over 21,000 fully indexed abstracts of UNIDO documentation and includes descriptions of major studies and reports, reports resulting from UNIDO's technical assistance activities, reports and proceedings of expert working groups, workshops and seminars, and publications in series. OECD on-line documents From the OECD a series of interesting on-line documents in pdf format. Of particular interest is the one on "SMEs and electronic commerce". Council for Urban Development Publications A very diversified publications list including :Business Development: Entrepreneurial, Business Development: Finance, Community Development, Downtown Revitalization/Development, Economic Development Research Tools, Growing Manufacturing, Incubators, International Trade, Organizing and Managing Economic Development, etc. Do not miss the opportunity to explore the other sections of ENTERWeb by clicking on the Menu on the left. You will then be able to visit the most popular sections such as Entrepreneurship, Business Ethics, Knowledge Economy, Globalization, Women and also the new sections on Social Media and Culture and Business. IDPM Publications From the Institute for Development Policy and Management of the University of Manchester a series of interesting on-line publications. Do not miss the Finance and Development Working Papers.