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    Policy responses to the global financial crisis

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    This document comprises of a set of briefs which discuss policy responses to the financial crisis. They came out of rapid research projects from the UK Institute of Development Studies for publication to coincide with the London G20 summit in April 2009. The ten short papers are outlined below:
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    The global financial crisis and foreign direct investment in Latin America

    Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, 2008
    Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) increased sevenfold between 1993 and 2007. In the wake of the global financial crisis, this trend is bound to reverse. This paper deems that the current crisis should be seen as an opportunity to restore Latin America’s ability to capture more of the benefits of FDI when it returns.
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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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    The global financial crisis and developing countries

    Overseas Development Institute, 2008
    Many developing countries are still growing strongly despite the current global financial downturn, but forecasts are worsening. This background note from ODI questions how long this growth can persist. There are different channels through which the crisis could spread and some countries are more at risk than others.
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    China's growing economic presence in Africa

    Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2008
    This policy brief documents the size and rate of change of China’s growing presence, focusing primarily on trade and finance. It also discusses the rate of change and looks at projections of its growth.
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    Idealism, realism and the investment climate in developing countries

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    Developing countries that seek to attract increased levels of private investment for growth are commonly advised to reform their investment climates. But how is this to be done and is it always the right thing to do?
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    The rise of Africa's "frontier markets"

    Finance and Development, IMF, 2008
    This article discusses African countries and the second generation of “emerging market” countries. It likens attraction from institutional investors to Africa to that in emerging markets in the 1980s. However, markets are more integrated today and investors are immersed in a wide range of financial activities and using complex technologies.
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    A capital story

    IMF Publications, 2008
    Capital flows are at historic highs in Low-Income Countries (LICs). Private-source inflows have quadrupled relative to LIC GDPs since the 1980s. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has risen also more than tenfold between the 1980s and 2006. However, official aid to poor countries has not become visible. The reasons for the dramatic shift are diverse.
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    Improving the foreign direct investment capacity of the mountainous provinces in Viet Nam

    Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organisation, Tokyo, 2008
    This study assesses impediments to private sector growth in Northern Mountainous Provinces (NMPs) of Vietnam which are also similar to many emerging market economies. Though this region has huge potentials to develop, but poor economic infrastructure, remote location and bad foreign direct investment (FDI) climate have hindered the FDI inflows.
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    The liberalisation of trade in environmental goods and services in the ESCWA and Arab regions

    Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, 2007
    This study examines the implications of liberalising trade in environmental goods in the ESCWA and Arab regions. Based on an assessment of the market and the changes in tariff revenue that could be generated by such a liberalisation, the study argues that a single reference list on the various types of environmental goods should be established for all ESCWA member states.

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