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  The resource curse: which institutions matter?

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007

  Countries rich in natural resources on average grow more slowly than countries without such
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  The precarious state of public finance

  Global Policy Forum, 2007

  As part of the ongoing debate over sustainable development financing, this paper identifies and examines the obstacles to effective mobilisation of domestic revenues in Southern countries.
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  Privatising basic utilities in Africa: a rejoinder

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007

  This paper offers a critical analysis of Bayliss and McKinley’s 2007 IPC Policy Research Brief on “Privatising Basic Utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: the MDG Consequences”.The author agrees with their statement that African governments were pushed into accepting private participation in basic infrastructure by international financial institutions and donors.
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  Why are there so few black-owned firms in Africa? preliminary results from enterprise survey data

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2007

  Much of the growth in Sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade has come from extractive industries, rather than from private, entrepreneurial activity.
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  Destroy and profit: wars, disasters and corporations

  Focus on the Global South, 2006

  This publication addresses some of the key issues and challenges that accompany post war and post disaster reconstruction programmes.
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  Accountability mechanisms for multilateral financial institutions and the private sector

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  This paper examines accountability mechanisms of for Multilateral Financial Institutions (MFI’s) and the Private Sector.
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  Corruption in international business transactions: the perspective of Norwegian firms

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  The paper aims at obtaining a better understanding of the dynamics of corruption in international business transactions, focusing particularly on the perspectives of Norwegian firms.
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  Doing business in or with Burma

  International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2005

  This paper explores the current situation in Burma, with a particular focus on the conditions for potential and current foreign investment.It answers the following questions:who owns the economy - who do you need to deal with when conduction business in Burma?how to read statistics on levels of FDI and tradehow much of this money is going to the junta what happens to the tax
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  Nature for sale: the impacts of privatising water and biodiversity

  Friends of the Earth International, 2005

  This report, published by Friends of the Earth, discusses the impacts of privatisation of water supply and biodiversity on the poor throughout the world, especially women.
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  Flags of inconvenience?: the Global Compact and the future of the United Nations

  Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK, 2004

  The Global Compact, established in 2000 in order to internalise a set of principles in global business, has attracted much criticism related to its role, effects, and accountability.

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