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    Comparing EU free trade agreements: investment

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004
    This paper discusses and compares a number of free trade agreements the EU holds, namely, The Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreements, EU-Mexico Global Agreement and the EU-Chile Association AgreementAmong the authors findings are:All EU Free Trade Agreements stop short of including protection provisions such as expropriation and compensation clausesdisagreement between EU Membe
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    The ISO and corporate social responsibility: stakeholder engagement, ISO and corporate social responsibility

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004
    Multi-stakeholder engagement is a central theme of the corporate social responsibility (CSR), or social responsibility (SR) agenda.
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    The ISO and corporate social responsibility: small and medium-sized enterprises

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004
    The existing social responsibility (SR) debate almost entirely focuses on large enterprises. The drivers of the debate, including NGOs, investors and regulatory authorities, naturally tend to focus on large, high profile companies.
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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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    Economic security for a better world

    International Labour Organization, 2004
    This report is the first attempt to measure global economic security as perceived by ordinary people and was based on detailed household and workplace surveys covering over 48,000 workers and more than 10,000 workplaces worldwide. Economic security is measured on the basis of seven forms of work-related security including income, labour markets, employment, skills, work, jobs and representation.
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    US monopoly on information technology triggers East Asian backlash

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Vigorous protection of intellectual property rights has become an important means of preserving a competitive advantage in international trade. Under pressure from the US, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has used the agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) to force the world to conform to US policy in this area.
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    Water privatisation fails to fulfil its promises

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Developing countries are increasingly under pressure from international development institutions to privatise their water supplies. Yet privatisation has failed to produce its expected benefits.
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    Explaining African economic growth performance: the case of Ghana

    Global Development Network, 2002
    With positive economic growth since the mid 1980s, Ghana has regularly been put forward as a showcase of success in Africa. What accounts for this growth? This paper examines Ghana’s growth record and the macroeconomic policies that produced this growth.The authors review Ghana’s economic performance and note that Ghana’s overall growth record has one of unevenness.
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    Water justice for all: global and local resistance to the control and commodification of water

    Friends of the Earth International, 2003
    This report explores the issue of global water justice.
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    Growth accelerations

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2004
    Unlike most cross-country growth analyses, this paper focuses on turning points in growth performance.

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