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  Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania

  The Advanced Study of India is the only research institution in the United States dedicated to the study of contemporary India.
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  Africa’s success: evaluating accomplishments

  John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007

  This paper evaluates the seven presumed African success stories: Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique and Uganda. It gives a detailed analysis of the economic, political, governance and human development scenarios in each country, and identifies the emerging challenges.
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  EU Policy Coherence

  The EU Policy Coherence Programme organises an annual Policy Coherence for Development Conference alongside more regular debates and expert meetings.
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  New powers for global change?: Brazil as a regional player and an emerging global power: foreign policy strategies and the impact on the new international order

  Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2007

  Brazil is increasingly becoming an important player in world politics, both within the South American context and globally as one of the so-called BRICs. This essay examines the main lines of Brazilian foreign policy in the current presidency of Luís Inácio Lula da Silva.
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  Asia 2015: promoting growth, ending poverty; conference report

  Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006

  This is the report for Asia 2015, a very high profile international conference held in London in March 2006. A key aim of the conference was to to develop a shared understanding of potential challenges to Asia’s capacity to maintain high rates of growth while continuing to move millions out of extreme poverty.
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  Malaysia: an overview of the legal framework for foreign direct investment

  Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002

  Among the Southeast Asian countries, Malaysia has keenly attracted Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). In this respect, it has constantly striven to maintain the competitiveness of FDI determinants, including the legal infrastructure. Today, Malaysia is encountering fresh challenges, for FDI flows seem to have declined in the region.
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  The future of the WTO: addressing institutional challenges in the new millennium

  World Trade Organization, 2004

  In the light of recent setbacks of the WTO, particularly in Seattle and Cancun, this report looks at the state of the organisation in order to study and clarify institutional challenges and to consider how the organisation can be reinforced to meet these challenges in the future.
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  Gender and labour market liberalisation in Africa

  African Labour Research Network, 2004

  This report examines the liberalisation of the labour market in Africa from a gender perspective. It analyses current economic and labour policies of seven African countries to see their impact on the labour force and the organised labour movement in general, and women in particular.
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  India: An integral part of new Asia

  Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, University of Singapore, 2004

  As East Asian economies emerge from the shadow of the 1997 crisis, there appears to be an increasing recognition that greater economic coordination and cooperation among major Asian countries is essential to manage globalisation challenges, and to enhance Asia’s role in the world affairs.
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  The WTO in 2003: structural shifts, state-of-play and prospects for the Doha Round

  Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2003

  Much has changed in the transition from the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The WTO goes deeper and wider than its predecessor the GATT, and the Doha Round of negotiations proposes to enter territories such as investment, competition and environment-related policies.

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