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    What happened at the G20? Initial analysis of the London Summit

    Oxfam, 2009
    As a fallout of the global financial crisis developing countries are faced with growing unemployment and falling remittances. In 2009, it is estimated that the crisis could push 100 million people into poverty.
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    A copper-bottomed crisis?: the impact of the global economic meltdown on Zambia

    Oxfam, 2009
    At the time of independence in 1964 Zambia was a middle-income country and appeared set to develop into a prosperous nation. The country is now one of the poorest countries in the world, ranked 163 out of 179 countries on the UN’s Human Development Index (2008), 64 per cent of Zambians were estimated to live below the poverty line in 2006, down from 71 per cent in 1991.
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    Latin America and the global economic crisis

    Oxfam, 2009
    The economies that are most tightly linked to the United States (US) of America, such as Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, have seen a rapid fall off in demand for manufactured exports, principally autos and maquila (garments and electronics).
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    The financial crisis and its impact on developing countries

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2009
    One of the key channels for transmission of the crisis from developed to developing countries has been via private capital flows though the impact of this has been more severe for emerging markets than for low-income countries, which are less integrated into international private capital markets. Foreign direct invest (FDI) flows will likely fall sharply.
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    Macroeconomic stability and financial regulation: key issues for the G20

    Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 2009
    As the financial crisis deepens, the temptations for each individual country to free ride increase and the need for coordination becomes more evident. The London Summit will play a key role in generating such a coordinated response. Sound economic analysis is essential in designing the response.
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    The global financial crisis: lessons and responses from Africa

    Pambazuka, 2009
    As the international financial crisis points to the collapse of laissez faire economics and discredits market fundamentalism, Africa and the global South should break free from failed neoliberal policies and the institutions that have promoted them and define their own paths to development.
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    Macroeconomic management in the face of global challenges

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2009
    The effects of the global economic crisis, which is being predicted to turn into a recession, are beginning to show in developing countries. Low income countries such as Bangladesh are confronted with a number of critical challenges, particularly in the area of macroeconomic management.
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    Where does it hurt? The impact of the financial crisis on developing countries

    ActionAid International, 2009
    The global financial system is in crisis, and that crisis is hitting developing countries hard. But the system has never served developing countries well.
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    Economic and social survey of Asia and the Pacific 2009: addressing triple threats to development

    United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2009
    The Asia-Pacific region has been the fastest-growing part of the world for over 20 years and has made substantial progress in reducing poverty and hunger. But in 2008, it experienced three global crises: recession in developed countries, food and fuel price volatility and climate change calamities. What have recent events meant for the future of development in the region?
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    Financial crisis, global economic governance and development: responses of Asia and the global South

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2009
    Research and information system (RIS) organised the high-level conference on financial crisis, global economic governance and development: responses of Asia and the global South, in New Delhi on 6-7 February 2009 to mark its silver jubilee.

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