This book provides a wide review of experience of donor agencies indesigning and implementing business development services for small and medium enterprises in a variety of developing countries‎.‎This selection of twenty two papers from the International Conference on Business Development Services‎,‎ Rio de Janeiro‎,‎ March 1999 covers programs of integrated SME capacity building‎,‎ establishment and operation of business centers‎,‎ the organization and operation of advisory services‎,‎ business linkages‎,‎ industrial clusters and business incubators‎,‎ support for marketing services‎,‎ innovative practices in business training and counseling‎,‎ recent experience in entrepreneurship development programs‎,‎ projects for the transfer and upgrading of technologies and new approaches to the dissemination of information‎.‎ Case studies examine the impact of the services on individual firms as well as on macro‎-economic factors‎.‎This book is important for all consultants‎,‎ donor groups‎,‎ NGOs and all practitioners working in developing c‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎