The findings of a recent survey undertaken by UNCTAD (Nachum, 1997) covering large firms in developing countries which have diversified from a commodity base show that these firms which have diversified away from a commodity base display certain common characteristics in their diversification process.

Growth in the more diversified economies

Food production is not enough and diversified.

The sources of income must be diversified.

Public debt in the more diversified economies

Firms which have diversified vertically tend to be the largest in terms of their turnover, but are among the less profitable and achieve the lowest rates of growth. The best growth performance is achieved by firms diversifying into related areas, while diversification into unrelated areas yields the highest profits but slow growth.

The Fund was well diversified and had long term objectives.

We need firms. The firms have gone away.

They got more calories over the course of a diversified meal.

In 2004, UNIFEM achieved a larger and more diversified resource base.

39. The Turkish media have both grown in numbers and diversified.

Provision of venture capital to newly emerging innovative firms may also attract international firms to collaborate with domestic firms.

Recognizing the importance of government investment in promoting innovation and growth implies the need to rethink the conventional wisdom about state intervention. Instead of focusing on picking individual technologies or firms, public organizations should act like investors, betting on a diversified portfolio of choices.

Unemployment rates, however, remained critically high, especially in the more diversified economies.

Funding for these activities has become substantially diversified over the reporting period.

30. The links between UNU and UNESCO are regular, numerous and diversified.

The use of outer space is becoming ever more developed, extensive and diversified.

Peacekeeping operations had become diversified and tended to be more complex and urgent.

On the contrary, it has diversified and its operating methods have been modernized.

Clusters of firms may or may not involve formal partnerships between spatially proximate firms.

The State shall encourage and support coal mining enterprises to develop a diversified economy.

However, the development of new technologies increasingly requires diversified inputs from several different disciplines.

36. United Nations support to Central America through operational activities is comprehensive and diversified.

Country Firms through Internationalization

by developing country firms

Firms 18 per cent

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Many such firms were family firms, which found it difficult to develop an entrepreneurial outlook.

The Ministry is also moving towards more diversified service provision through greater public private partnerships.

The use of outer space in Morocco was becoming ever more developed, extensive and diversified.

97. In this respect, it is worth mentioning that information should be expanded and diversified.

Developing Country Firms through Internationalization

Technology Incubators Nurturing Small Firms.

Developing Country Firms through Internationalization

Developing Country Firms through Internationalization

Developing Country Firms through Internationalization

Stratified sample survey of firms

International competitiveness among firms is in fact significantly influenced by the national environments in which firms operate.

We have destroyed many townships around you, and diversified the signs, so that they may return.

We have destroyed many townships around you, and diversified the signs, so that they may return.

In Cambodia, the vocational skills have been further diversified more stress is put on appropriate technology .

Over time, however, they have diversified into other business activities such as property development and trading.

Only by rendering huge and diversified international support can we help Africa to escape its predicament.

Peace is indivisible in the Sudan as well, however large and diversified the country may be.

In most cases, these diversified concepts of poverty are not included in national poverty reduction efforts.