Dísticos elegíacos en Carducci (“Nevicata”, Odi Barbare, II)

The economic impact of competition - Article - ODI Project Briefings 42 published by ODI and DFID

How do government policies and business practices affect the degree of competition in a given market? How does competition, in turn, affect market outcomes, such as prices, innovation and access to services? With funding from the UK Department for International Development, ODI has compared economic performance in four product markets – sugar, cement, beer and mobile phone services – across Ban...

Rethinking Rural Development - ODI Briefing Papers

Rural development should be central to poverty reduction. Three quarters of the 1.2 billion people surviving on less than one dollar a day live and work in rural areas. Rural people are twice as likely to be poor as urban counterparts. However, rural development faces a loss of confidence: funding has been falling, and governments and donors are scrambling to rethink policy. What new directions...

Chinese ODI in France: Challenges and Opportunities

Using France as a case study, the paper tries to explain for the presence of Chinese firms, assesses in detail factors influencing their activities and provides a tentative assessment of the impacts. The paper argues that the concerns expressed about the presence of Chinese investors are so far wholly misplaced for a number of reasons. Firstly, Chinese outward direct investment (ODI) is still e...

Debug architecture for the En-II system chip

A comprehensive system debug methodology is presented, which combines the state-of-the-art support for software, functional hardware and process technology debug. The application of this methodology to the 65-nm CMOS En-II SoC is described, containing among others a high-performance ARM CPU and a TriMedia VLIW DSP. The debug requirements and implementation choices made are explained in detail.

ODI and Home Country's Industrial Upgrading: Mechanism and preliminary evidence