Effective public-private partnership in the information technology sector: How to enhance business and trade capacities

New opportunities for least developed countries (LDCs) have little to do with the past, thanks, in part, to globalization and new information technologies. Few are aware of the promising grass-roots stories of LDC exporters. A new generation of innovative, energetic and persevering entrepreneurs is emerging. ITC, with its track record in LDC trade development, is open to new partnerships to help LDCs reach their export potential.

ITC launched a newly updated version of one of its most popular publications, Coffee — An exporter’s guide, at the International Coffee Organization’s annual meeting (London, September 2002).

ITC won the 2002 prize of the Fondation Jean Bastin for its legal guide to trade financing for international trade. A jury of academics, trade finance specialists and lawyers selected Financements et garanties dans le commerce international: Guide juridique (“Finance and guarantees in international trade: A legal guide”) from several dozen other publications.

Coffee: An exporter’s guide. 310 pages. Provides overview of world coffee trade, demand in importing countries, prices, statistical data; discusses niche markets, environment and social aspects; highlights organic coffee production, marketing and quality control issues; reviews contracts and deliveries, ship-ping, financial aspects and insurance, electronic commerce and supply chain management, dispute resolution, arbitration, futures markets, and hedging; explores commercial risk and risk related to trade credit issues; describes marketing systems; gives coffee producers’ country profiles. Annexes include International Coffee Agreement 2001, list of useful web addresses.

World markets for organic fruit and vegetables: Opportunities for developing countries in the production and export of organic horticultural products. 312 pages (Technical paper). The publication presents the recent findings of a joint FAO/ITC/CTA study on international trade in fresh organic fruit and vegetables. It provides detailed information on demand for these products in the world’s largest organic markets (United States, Japan and European countries), including data on sales and imports.

ITC produces a variety of international trade bulletins which complement ITC’s books and technical papers. To subscribe, contact the relevant sections of ITC listed below.

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Contractual agreements in the publishing and printing industry: A practical guide. 112 pages. Guide to contractual agreements intended for publishers making agreements internationally with other publishers — provides a range of model agreements with explanatory notes covering relationships between major parties including authors, publishers, literary agents, distributors. Model contracts cover author-publisher and author-literary agent agreements, printing agreements, publisher-distributor agreements and agreements between publishers. Also includes same-language reprint licence and translation licence royalty agreements, co-edition same-language and co-edition translation contracts.

World markets for organic fruit and vegetables: Opportunities for developing countries in the production and export of organic horticultural products. 312 pages (Technical Paper). The publication presents the recent findings of a joint FAO/ITC/CTA study on international trade in fresh organic fruit and vegetables. It provides detailed information on demand for these products in the world’s largest organic markets (United States, Japan and European countries), including data on sales and imports.

ITC produces a variety of international trade bulletins which complement ITC’s books and technical papers. To subscribe, contact the relevant sections of ITC listed below.