Addresses the issue of international competitiveness from the perspective of developing countries, which must exploit the opportunities offered by international trade and the extraordinarily rapid technological progress of recent years. The book's central message is that while sound macroeconomic management is crucial for achieving a sustained rise in living standards, it is an economy's ability to generate and manage technological change that ultimately determines its success in the world market and the pace at which it grows.

Refer review of this policy book in 'Journal of International Development, vol. 10, 7, 1998. pp.841-855.

Presents a set of papers that contributed to an Economic Development Institute (EDI) workshop on curriculum development. The workshop was created to reexamine the substance of EDI's curriculum and increase the institute's efforts to train project analysts. The papers cover substative issues in project evaluation, pedagogy, and EDI's general training strategy.

The purpose of the 'Microfinance Handbook' is to bring together in a single source guiding principles and tools that will promote sustainable microfinance and create viable institutions.