The importance of a coherent policy environment and

(b) Policy coherence for SME development

While a regular and effective government private sector dialogue is essential for the creation of a coherent policy framework for enterprise and SME development, policy coherence implies not only the design of coherent policies but also clarity and consistency in their implementation.

The Representative of the Secretary General will be responsible for ensuring a consistent policy approach by the entire United Nations system.

Policy coordination and coherence

(b) Providing guidance on the application of financial policies and regulations and ensuring their consistent application

Policy coherence implies the creation of a favourable overall policy framework for the development of all enterprises and entrepreneurship.

C. Promotion of policy coherence

Above all, it facilitates the achievement of a coherent policy framework for enterprise and SME development.

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Ensuring policy coherence is a major Government responsibility.

Another important issue is policy coherence.

An appropriate national policy framework for SME development would encompass coherence at several levels.

At the first session of the Commission, discussion of policy coherence focused on the macro and micro levels.

Until recently there has been a lack of awareness of the need for coherent policies for SME development.

37. The achievement of policy coherence implies not only the design of coherent policies but also clarity and consistency in their implementation, as well as an adequate response by the private sector.

IMF should play the central role in ensuring consistency and coherence of the domestic economic policy of major economies.

Successful implementation of summit outcomes required policy coherence and consistency, as inconsistencies between economic, financial and social policies were key obstacles to objectives being met.

Other examples of the use of government private sector dialogue in order to achieve policy coherence included Singapore and Taiwan, Province of China.

Coherence and consistency of relevant policies, laws and regulations need to be improved so as to remove some of the barriers to the implementation of climate change strategies.

However, domestic capital market development requires wide ranging reform and achieving coherence between the policies is not easy.

The importance of a coherent policy environment which links macro and micro policies, appropriately timed and sequenced, with firm level efforts to attain and maintain competitiveness and

The experts identified the different levels at which policy coherence needs to be achieved and exchanged experiences on measures and structures for attaining it.

The achievement of policy coherence in the interest of enterprise development may sometimes lead to conflicts with other policy goals, thus distracting from the principal objective of SME development.

However, policy coherence is needed at other levels or stages, including at the federal and local levels and at the national and international level and during policy design and implementation.

Speakers underlined the need for a coherent policy on trade and aid, as well as the need to assess the impact of aid policies, for example, procurement rules on the quality of aid.

Accordingly, he stressed the need for a coherent policy environment which linked macro and sectoral policies, including the timing and sequencing of liberalization policies, with firm level efforts to expand supply capacity and to attain and maintain competitiveness.

Shortfalls in creating a coherent policy framework are often related to weak institutional capacities.

One aspect of that involves the development of a coherent and articulate communications policy, to be carried out at various levels.

Bosnia and Herzegovina still lacked a coherent agricultural policy.

Policy coherence implies not only the design of coherent policies but also clarity and consistency in their implementation, as well as an adequate response from the private sector.

Speakers referred to the need for a comprehensive, consistent and multi faceted response to terrorism.

This implies not only the design of coherent policies but also clarity and consistency in their implementation, as well as the need for an adequate response by the private sector (Henley and O Neill, 1996, Mytelka, 1996, Lall et al, 1994).

Recognizing that eradication of extreme poverty is a major challenge within the process of globalization and requires coordinated and continued policies,

Moreover, in creating a coherent policy framework for SME development, Governments also need to take into account obligations emanating from binding international agreements that have an impact on the nature and the design of enterprise policies and support measures.TD B COM.3 9

A recent study on war and drugs in Colombia concluded that one goal of a coherent security policy should be to expand the rule of law across the country.

(a) The need to develop a coherent communication and information policy and to improve marketing and distribution

1.202 To provide policy advice to the Commissioner General and ensure smooth implementation of policy decisions and general cohesion of Agency operations.

It is about policy coherence, improved delivery and untying aid.

International systemic coherence therefore assumed particular importance.

41. Incoherence in the formulation of macroeconomic and enterprise specific policies is often more costly for SMEs than for larger enterprises.

Each tool can be used individually, and also fits into a coherent operational perspective.

Efforts are still being made to achieve coherence in formulating annual plans and implementing policies, in other words, to bring together the different crosscutting themes, including gender, in a coherent manner.

(c) Few countries until recently have been aware of the need for coherence between macro and micro policies.

What difficulties are you encountering in attaining policy coherence for SME development?