Publicaciones

This is a national companion guide to the publication The Business Guide for Sustainability in Foreign Investments.

The Textile and Clothing Sector in Asian Graduating Least Developed Countries: Challenges and Ways Forward

Pharmaceuticals, baby food, cotton clothing and cars are the four focus value chains of this report. 

This report shows how sustainability standards can be a powerful tool for post-pandemic recovery.

This report outlines women’s roles in cotton production in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It compares women’s participation in the total workforce in these regions and suggests how to improve competitiveness by re-evaluating the roles of women.

Nepal could lose 4.3% of exports because of tariff changes when it graduates from least developed country status in 2026. The removal of preferential tariffs will especially affect the apparel, synthetic textile fabric and carpet sectors. Losses will mostly occur in exports to China, the European...

Las normas y los reglamentos tienen repercusiones importantes en la competitividad de las pymes.El tema central del informe Perspectivas de competitividad de las pymes de este año es "Cumplir las normas para fomentar el comercio". Cuando las pymes siguen dicha recomendación, aumentan sus...

Literature review of interdependencies between public and private standards. It focuses on how governments could engage with private standards to impact their legitimacy and significance in the market; provides examples of complementarities between public and private standards. Part three of a...

Voluntary sustainability standards are in the mainstream, and no longer a novelty for niche markets. This second global report outlines data on area, production volume and producers for 14 major sustainability standards across bananas, cocoa, coffee, cotton, palm oil, soybeans, cane sugar, tea and...

Estudio sobre los mercados emergentes del sector minorista de la moda de algunos países en desarrollo “más avanzados”, es decir, el Brasil, China, la India, Malasia, Singapur y Sudáfrica; presenta la dinámica general de cada uno de estos mercados y su potencial de crecimiento, e incluye...

Recopilación de estudios de casos dirigida a los dirigentes de empresas, los responsables de la formulación de políticas y a los profesionales del desarrollo, en la que se muestran experiencias exitosas del diálogo entre los sectores público y privado en países en desarrollo.Se ponen de...

Good Practices in the Global Apparel Industry provides valuable insight on ways for small and medium-sized enterprises to move up the value chain and away from low-value contract manufacturing.