Summary: The report presents background material to facilitate the discussions at the third session of the Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development. It highlights some implications of the post-Uruguay Round economic environment for enterprise development and analyses the challenges posed by the process of globalization and liberalization to enterprises, particularly SMEs in developing countries. In this context and based on the results of the two expert meetings held in 1998 the report examines the role of inter-firm cooperation through partnerships, clustering and networking for enterprise development and competitiveness and formulates a number of related suggestions on policy measures to be considered by the Commission
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International Institute for Trade and Developement : UNCTAD Collection