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    Transformations for sustainable development: promoting environmental sustainability in Asia and the Pacific

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2016
    Asia and the Pacific is a dynamic region. Regional megatrends, such as urbanization, economic and trade integration and rising incomes and changing consumption patterns, are transforming its societies and economies while multiplying the environmental challenges.
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    Chinese businesses in Africa: perspectives on corporate social responsibility and the role of Chinese government policies

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2016
    China’s business engagement in developing countries has grown rapidly in the past decade through direct investment, contract projects and trade. China was the third-largest foreign investor in the world between 2012 and 2014, and approximately 80% of its investments flowed to developing countries in 2014.
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    South-South cooperation: mapping new frontiers

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2016
    Ideological solidarity apart, what has imparted an added traction and resonance to South-South Cooperation is a marked increase in intra-South trade, investment and developmental cooperation.
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    Middle East and North Africa economic update 2010

    World Bank Institute, World Bank, 2010
    In an area heavily invested in the energy sector, changes in approach have both direct and indirect effects on climate.
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    The business case for: Solar PV in Cambodia

    US Agency for International Development, 2015
    With one of the highest electricity tariffs in the world, poor infrastructure, and limited electricity access, there exists a significant opportunity for solar PV to markedly change the energy landscape in Cambodia in coming years.
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    India-Africa partnership towards sustainable development

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    The intersection of African resurgence and India’s growing economy and global profile has opened up new avenues for deepening the multi-faceted development partnership between the two emerging growth poles of the world.
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    World trade and development report: mega regionals, WTO and new issues

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2015
    With the Tenth WTO Ministerial Conference in Nairobi, the efforts for trade liberalisation and strengthening of multilateral trading arrangement have come to a full circle. What started in 1995 with graduation from GATT to WTO has come to a point where several challenges for multilateralism are clearly discernible.
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    Quantifying the mega-regional trade agreements: a review of models

    International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2015
    Major developments in trade policy are currently taking place in the mega-regional trade agreements, in particular in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, and the Trade in Services Agreement. These agreements are setting new standards and breaking new ground in setting the rules for global commerce.
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    Currency crisis: where do we go from here?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1999
    This paper reviews the arguments for and against the imposition of capital controls in the Philippines and discusses the liberalization process undertaken by the authorities since the 1980s. The view espoused by this paper is that there is no need to impose selective capital control in the Philippines similar to that of Chile.
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    Proposed RP-US free trade deal: issues and challenges

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005
    This article examines the politico-strategic motivations of the Bush Administration’s efforts to foster free trade agreements (FTAs) to a number of countries, including the Philippines. These motives include the US interest in advancing trade opportunities for American businesses and in ensuring its role as a leader in the global political economy.

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