Demand and supply driven business support services

The idea was to move from the supply driven approach to the demand driven approach.

Experts stressed the need for a change in focus from supply driven services to demand driven services.

In order to be effective, assistance should be demand driven.

45. Should business support programmes be supply or demand driven?

Nevertheless, this approach represented the beginning of a substantial paradigm shift from a supply driven to a more demand driven approach.

However, most of the successful SMEs have grown on a demand driven curve.

This process should be demand driven and designed to reach the most vulnerable population.

The problem of the amphetamine type stimulants is driven by both supply and demand.

demand driven but also pro actively responsive to the needs and priorities of Parties

. demand driven but also pro actively responsive to the needs and priorities of Parties

Such charges helped to ensure that services were demand driven and to cover costs.

Many government support institutions have not yet incorporated demand driven elements in their programmes.

Third, UNCTAD should continue its role in capacity building in developing countries through demand driven technical cooperation.

Technical assistance programmes need to be demand driven and aligned to countries' specific needs and development policies.

3. UNCTAD apos s technical cooperation will be demand driven, with an emphasis on country level activities.

Thus, future production is critical in determining prices in a market becoming more supply than demand driven.

Turning to resources, he noted, inter alia, that the move from a supply driven to a demand driven approach to United Nations development cooperation needed to be accompanied by a fundamental reflection on the adequacy of resources in relation to actual demand.

The African Group called on the Secretariat to implement without delay the findings of the Evaluation Group and to ensure that programmes were demand driven rather than supply driven.

Technical assistance programmes for landlocked developing countries should be substantially increased, be demand driven, and be country specific.

He stressed the need for demand driven as opposed to donor driven activities to ensure that UNCTAD continued addressing the challenges facing developing countries, as in the past four decades.

Whether business support should be demand or supply driven was discussed in the context of improved support service mechanisms.

This action oriented, demand driven and associative approach had prompted extrabudgetary funding amounting to 550,000 for the current biennium.

The CST could also then discuss and advise on participative and demand driven methodologies for the setting of research priorities.

This trend is driven by technological advances in the aerospace industry and the ever growing demand for higher living standards.

The consensus was for demand driven support, leaving room, however, for supply driven support in situations where enterprises are not aware or informed about existing programmes or the potential benefits that could derive therefrom.

Communities have found that decentralization, even if demand driven, is not a panacea for the problem of empowerment of local communities.

There is further evidence that in implementing home grown and demand driven reforms, Member States have learned a few additional lessons.

The programme must be driven by market demand for skills, with public support to increase supply by training and vocational education.

It further stressed the need for technical cooperation to be demand driven, responsive to local conditions, nationally owned and better coordinated.

Such services from the GM would be demand driven and in response to requests from affected countries or groups of donors.

24. Whether business support should be demand or supply driven was again discussed in the context of improved support service mechanisms.

The consensus was for demand driven support, leaving room, however, for supply driven support in situations where enterprises are not aware or informed about existing programmes or the potential benefits that they could derive therefrom.

The growth in domestic investments would not only enhance national wealth, but would also spur the demand for foreign capital and technology in an escalating, mutually reinforcing manner that makes investments demand driven.

It should continue technical assistance and capacity building on a demand driven basis, equitably distributed among regions and tailored to specific needs.

Decentralization is strengthened when driven by demand from lower levels and achieved through a process based on public debate and inclusive policy making.

It should be demand driven and aim to enhance the capacity of countries to promote their own development process with appropriate international cooperation.

But if we believe that debt driven demand is different, demand stimulus will at best be a palliative. Writing down former borrowers debt may be slightly more effective in producing the old pattern of demand, but it will probably not restore it to the pre crisis level.

In the area of technical cooperation, technical assistance activities should be demand driven and based on the needs and priorities defined by recipient developing countries.

In many countries, demand for domestic products has diminished in favour of imported products, and competition has driven many SMEs out of business (Dhungana 2003).

This could be achieved through the formation of innovative public private partnerships and large scale, demand driven South South or triangular initiatives across the globesecapacities

In general, growth was broadly based, supported by robust export growth and higher commodity prices as well as strong domestic demand driven by low interest rates.

There had to be a common, coherent, demand driven and strategic programming approach focused on the Millennium Development Goals for all United Nations operations for development.

UNCTAD should continue to deliver high quality technical assistance and capacity building activities to developing countries, including advice on institutional reforms on a demand driven basis.

Growing world consumption of finished steel products was largely driven by the growth of demand in Asia, particularly in China, and, to a lesser extent, India.