Publications, Documents and Bibliography

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 July 17th 2004

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Sites are reviewed individually and rated mostly according to content depth and value added, while also considering ease of navigation and speed of loading. For each category best resources are listed first.

Pact Publications Home Page

Educational Materials and Training Tools for the Development Community, They include publications from GEMINI (Growth & Equity through Microenterprise Investments & Institutions), IDT (Institute for Development Training) InterAction (American Council for Voluntary International Action) SEEP (The Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network) TechnoServe and Women's World Banking. A key site.

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.

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.

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.

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