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  Striving for international competitiveness : lessons from electronics for developing countries : synthesis of findings from the research project

  OECD Development Centre, 1993

  Electronics has become critically important in every country's attempt to restructure or build its competitiveness. The developments in electronics have given rise to an industry with an unprecedented growth record in terms of sales and exports, innovative capacity, and spin-off potential for related services.
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  Foreign investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 1997

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1998

  Innovative analytic bridges are established linking the official data on foreign direct investment flows and related information at the sectoral and company levels found in the specialized press to the information collected directly by the Unit through company questionnaires and interviews.
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  Assessing Globalization: briefing papers

  Development Economics Vice Presidency, World Bank, 2000

  Series of World Bank Briefing Papers looks at how to define globalization and then assesses three leading questions about globalization by looking at the evidence from a large number of countries. Is globalization increasing world poverty?
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  The WTO agenda and the developing countries

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2000

  The paper argues that, in the light of reforms since the mid-1980s, the developing countries have an interest in a relatively broad-based agenda.
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  Foreign Direct Investment and economic integration in the SAARC region

  South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes, 2000

  The prospect of free trade in South Asia raises the question of the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in regional integration.
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  The Tobin Tax: how to make it real

  Network Institute for Global Democratization, Helsinki, 2001

  This Report develops a new approach to making the Tobin tax real. This could be realised in two stages:In its first phase, the system would consist of the euro-EU and a group of other countries EU.
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  Foreign investment in developing countries: does it crowd in domestic investment?

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2000

  This paper assesses the extent to which foreign direct investment in developing countries crowds in or crowds out domestic investment. Paper develops a theoretical model of investment that includes an FDI variable and we proceed to test it with panel data for the period 1970–1996 and the two subperiods 1976–1985 and 1986–1996.
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  FDI in Least Developed Countries at a glance

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2001

  This paper is divided into two parts. The first depicts recent trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) to LDCs and changes that have taken place in relevant areas of the regulatory legal framework. The second part presents country profiles of each of the 49 LDCs to enable the reader – at a glance – to get a general picture of the role of FDI in these countries.
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  Benchmarking Knowledge-based Economies: OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 1999

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999

  Examines the knowledge-based economy, the challenge of globalisation, and economic performance and competitiveness of OECD countries under twelve main headings.
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  Eliminating world poverty: making globalisation work for the poor

  DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, 2000

  While progress has been made over the years in development, many challenges yet remain in order to make globalisation work for the poor.

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