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  Pension coverage and informal sector workers: international experiences

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2009

  Pension reform around the world in recent decades has focused mainly on the formal sector. Consequently, many of those working in the informal sector have been left out of structured pension arrangements, particularly in developing countries.
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  Voices from the South. The impact of the global financial crisis on developing countries

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008

  The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored its impact on the developing world, and the voices of people from these countries are rarely heard.
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  Down the plughole: why bringing water into WTO services negotiations would unleash a development disaster

  ActionAid International, 2005

  Poor countries are under intense pressure in the World Trade Organization's GATS negotiations to open their service markets and "progressively liberalise" key sectors – such as water delivery – to foreign corporations.
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  The GATS, South African local governments and water services

  Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2005

  This briefing paper provides background information on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) agreement.
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  Africa's first welfare state: the experience of South African firms doing business in Botswana

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2005

  This executive summary presents the experience of South African businesses operating in Botswana. The purpose of the study was to identify some of the pitfalls associated with doing business in a country such as Botswana, while also giving credit to some of the success stories. Findings include:
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  The currency premium and local-currency denominated debt costs in South Africa

  OECD Development Centre, 2004

  This paper aims at identifying the determinants of South African currency premia, which usually form an important element of debt cost in developing countries, in order to assess the scope of South African economic policies for narrowing the spread on local-currency denominated debt.The paper argues that South Africa is one among very few emerging economies able to borrow long-term domestically
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  When do the rich willingly pay income tax?

  Governance and Development Review, IDS, 2002

  Brazil and South Africa have much in common. In particular, they are both large middle income countries with very high levels of income inequality where whites historically have dominated over blacks.They differ markedly in terms of the significance of income tax. Relatively little income tax is collected in Brazil (4% of GDP).
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  Prospects for financial sector reform in the context of regional integration in SADC

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2001

  This paper looks at the role that SADC can realistically play in developing the financial systems of the countries of Southern Africa.

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