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  International investment perspectives

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  The articles in the report cover a wide range of investment topics, the highlights of which include:foreign direct investment (FDI) in the OCED continued to fall in 2003. This appears to be due to the sluggish macroeconomic performance of many of the larger OCED economies, not least Europe.
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  Prospects for FDI flows, transnational corporation strategies and promotion policies: 2004–2007

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004

  This report presents the results of a survey of international foreign direct investment (FDI) location experts who work as consultants, advisers and/or analysts in the investment location decision-making processes of transnational corporations (TNCs).
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  Corporate responsibility and the future of the international trade and investment agendas

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper argues that there are fundamental tensions between businesses’ lobbying on international trade and investment issues and their attempts to address environmental and social issues through a ‘voluntarist’ corporate responsibility (CR) agenda, as often efforts to liberalise international trade contribute to inequality and poverty, while the CR agenda attempts to ameliorate these same effec
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  Chasing the dragon: accounting for the under performance of India by comparison with China in attracting foreign direct investment

  Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 2003

  This paper seeks to explain why, although both China and India had similar levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the late 1970s, China now attracts far more FDI than India.The analysis focuses on the way in which national and sub-national governments have gone about the task of promoting inward foreign direct investment, and also considers how the governments of the two countries have fa
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  Reality and analysis: personal and technical reflections on the working lives of six women

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2004

  A group of development analysts – researchers, activists, and practitioners - engaged in an unusual exercise in early 2004. They had a dialogue about labour market, trade and poverty issues, but they preceded the dialogue with exposure to the realities of the lives of six host women in Gujarat: Dohiben, Kalavatiben, Kamlaben, Kesarben, Leelaben and Ushaben.
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  The world economic and social survey 2003

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2003

  The World Economic and Social Survey is an annual analysis of the state of the world economy and emerging policy issues.
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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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  International investment treaties and developing countries

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This briefing (9th in the IDS Trade and Development Background Briefings) analyses the need for a multilateral regulation of investment and the prospects that such an agreement has to take place within the framework of the WTO.Claims include:over the past ten years, foreign direct investment (FDI) to developing countries has increased five-foldthe increasing globalisation of capital
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  Trade in services

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This briefing (7th in the IDS Trade and Development Background Briefings) analyses the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and explores its consequences for developing countries.
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  Lessons from NAFTA for Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries: a summary of research findings

  Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2003

  This report attempts to draw lessons from the participation of Mexico in NAFTA in order to provide guidance to other Latin American countries on what they can expect from this type of trade agreement, and to identify policies that can help them derive the maximum benefits from trade integration in the Americas.Findings include:without NAFTA, global exports would have been roughly 25% lo

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