- How have deepening economic relations with the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) impacted on existing trade flows?
- F. Di Mauro / Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, 2000
- This paper uses the gravity-model approach to deal with two issues related to economic integration. The first concern is to analyse the impact on FDI stocks of specific variables denoting the will to integrate, and their relative impa...
- Encouraging growth in the Tanzanian garment industry
- Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 1998
- This article explores policy issues arising from recent policy reforms in Tanzania. These reforms known as the Economic Recovery Program (ERP), were adopted in 1986. The programme's reform package included the liberalization of intern...
- How institutional arrangements affect which natural resource management technologies are adopted
- A. Knox; R. Meinzen-Dick; P. Hazell / CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 1998
- Explores how the institutions of property rights and collective action play a particularly important role in the application of technologies for agricultural and natural resource management. Technologies with long time frames t...
- Inter and intra regional analysis of factors that generate and inhibit economic growth.
- B. Guha-Khasnobis; F. Bari / Global Development Network, 2000
- This paper extracts insights from cross-country analysis about the performance of individual South Asian countries and the region as a whole. The article investigates the determinants of growth in each country. The article find...
- The necessity of long-term convergence for trade integration in Southern Africa
- C. Harvey / Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2000
- The question underlying this paper is whether the South African Development Community (SADC) free trade area requires convergence. The aim of the paper is to: determine if macroeconomic policy convergence amongst member...
- Promising but early days yet for the Maputo Development Corridor (MDC): what benefits will it bring to Mozambique?
- A. Driver; J.G. de Barros / Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2000
- This article discusses the Maputo Development Corridor. There are currently two freight lines along the Maputo corridor route: A bulk rail freight flow, consisting of goods from Mpumalanga destined for export through th...
- Communication from the European Communities and their Member States to the TRIPS council: the relationship between provisions of the TRIPS agreement and access to medicines
- European Union, 2001
- Paper comes in response to The EC and their Member States recognition of the lack of affordable pharmaceuticals as a serious problem in many developing countries and especially for the poorest people. Paper assesses: relevance ...
- Fair in theory, unfair in practice: TRIPS and health care in Southern Africa
- R. Loewenson; G. Munot; V. Tyson / EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2000
- This paper investigates the consequences of WTO agreements relating to health, and primarily the TRIPS agreement on health care and drug access for Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries. The paper provides a b...
- Helping research institutions address IPR concerns
- S. Salazar; C. Falconi; J. Komen; J. I. Cohen / International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2000
- The main purpose of this Briefing Paper is to provide an assessment of the use of proprietary biotechnology inputs in the agricultural research systems of selected Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Mex...
- Lowering the price of pharmaceuticals
- J. Lanjouw / Brookings Institution, 2001
- This policy brief outlines a proposal that would lower the price of pharmaceuticals that treat important global diseases in developing countries, while at the same time allowing patent protection to increase where it is most likely to...
- Renegotiation of the Lome Convention: UK Governments response to the Select Committee on International Development's report
- International Development Committee, UK, 1998
- Who owns the ecosystem?
- C.C. Geisler; B.L. Bedford / Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
- Paper is about how human society organizes its proprietary relationship to the biosphere and, in particular, the property implications of ecosystem management. Our premise is that ecosystem management is endangered by its "bigger-is-b...
- NAFTA Supplemental Agreements: Four Year Review
- J. McFadyen / Institute for International Economics, USA, 1998
- Examines the objectives and accomplishments to date of the NAAEC and the NAALC.1 It also includes a discussion of the USA-Mexico Border Environmental Cooperation Agreement (BECA) which was designed to address environmental infrastruct...
- Options for Future ACP-EU Trade Relations
- H. Solignac Lecomte / European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1998
- Improved export performance and greater trade openness can help ACP economies to achieve faster growth. They are also necessary as a stimulus to countries starting or re-starting a process of industrialisation. While this is primarily...
- Modelling the Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Women, at Work and at Home: IDS research proposal
- A. Wood; M. Fontana / Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
- Researching the uneven impact of globalisation (mainly trade) on women and men in developing countries. It aims to construct and apply models to analyse the effects of trade liberalisation on the monetary economy, the household econom...
- Competition policy and the global trading system : a developing country perspective
- Bernard Hoekman / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- Certain factors can maximize the pressure on privatized infrastructure companies to be more efficient: the threat of bankruptcy, internal controls imposed by shareholders, and external disciplines (such as the threat of hostile takeov...
- Protection and Trade in Services: A Survey
- Bernard Hoekman; Carlos Primo Baga / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- In the past, international economists have ignored trade in services, but technological progress and international trade negotiations are likely to keep liberalization of trade in services a high profile policy issue. Until rec...
- Regional Integration and Foreign Direct Investment: A Conceptual Framework and Three Cases
- Magnus Blomstrom; Ari Kokko / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- How regional investment agreements affect the flows of foreign direct investment depends on location, the competitiveness of local firms, the motives for investment, and how the agreement affects the policy environment.Blomstrom and Kokko d...
- Using Tariff Indices to Evaluate Preferential Trading Arrangements: An Application to Chile
- Eric Bond / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- A tariff index that, combined with a simple general equilibrium model, can be used to calculate more accurately how preferential tariff reductions affect sectoral output, factor prices, average tariff rates, and general welfare. ...
- Trade Policy Options for Chile: A Quantitative Evaluation
- G.W. Harrison; T.F. Rutherford; D.G. Tarr / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Welfare in Chile would be improved by moving toward uniformity in the value-added tax and lowering the Chilean tariff to between 6 and 8 percent. Chile is currently evaluating a wide range of possible trade policies. Using a gl...
- Department of Economics, Strathclyde University
- University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
- BRICS Information Centre
- Based at the University of Toronto, Canada, the BRICS Information Centre aims is to serve as a leading independent source of information and analysis on the BRICS interaction and institutions. Documentation from the BRICS and research and reports will be published on this website as they become available. Together with international partners from the BRICS countries, the BRICS Informati...
- BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS
- The BRICS Policy Center (BPC) / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS is a joint initiative of the City of Rio de Janeiro and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). The Center is dedicated to the study of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and other middle powers, and it is administered by the Institute of International Relations...
- Global Economic Governance Africa (GEGAfrica)
- The aims of the GEGAfrica project are to undertake and promote research driven by African needs, to advise policymakers, and stimulate and inform public and media interest on global economic governance. It is a joint initiative of the International Development Law Unit at the University of Pretoria and the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA). The Global Economic Go...
- SecretarÃa General Iberoamericana (SEGIB)
- SEGIB is an Inter-governmental organisation for the provision of institutional and technical support to the Iberoamerican Conference and the Iberoamerican Summit Meeting of Heads of State and Heads of Government. SEGIB has member countries in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula - Spain, Portugal and Andorra.
- International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
- The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a non-profit business organisation created in June 1999 to establish a functional international framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions.
- IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH)
- IDH accelerates and upscales sustainable trade by building impact oriented coalitions of front running multinationals, civil society organisations, governments and other stakeholders. Through convening public and private interests, strengths and knowledge, IDH programs help make sustainability the new norm and deliver impact on Millennium Development Goals 1, 7 and 8.
- Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE)
- The SIRE aims to: develop and sustain a reputation for internationally excellent research in major fields of economics, building around and beyond existing strengths, enabling economics in Scotland to compete effectively in the global academic market place attract high quality graduate students to Scotland, consolidating and enhancing the growing success of...
- United Nations Development Policy and Analysis Division (DPAD)
- The development policy and analysis division (DPAD) is the main development research division of the United Nations secretariat.
- Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN)
- The Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN) is an online platform and the global meeting point for a research community that spans a wide range of disciplines and institutions. ACRN is a podium to present innovative findings and approaches in corruption / anti-corruption research, a sounding board to bounce off ideas and questions, a marketplace to announce jobs, events, courses and funding. The p...
