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  Economic liberalisation and globalisation vs India’s poor

  Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research, Poland, 2003

  Is globalisation and economic liberalisation a threat or an opportunity for the poor? Today, many in the national and international NGO community perceive globalisation and economic liberalization as a threat claiming that it widens inequalities and increases overall poverty.
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  IPRs, biotechnology and food security

  Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2002

  This paper examines the development and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRs) at the international and national level and the impacts of IPRs on biotechnology, agricultural practices and food security concerns in the context of globalisation.
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  Economic insecurity and the globalization of production

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2002

  This paper presents a theoretical framework clarifying a critical mechanism through which globalization can increase individual economic insecurity.
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  Distance, skill deepening and development: will peripheral countries ever get rich?

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2003

  This paper models the relationship between countries’ distance from global economic activity, endogenous investments in education, and economic development.Firms in remote locations pay greater trade costs on both exports and intermediate imports, reducing the amount of value added left to remunerate domestic factors of production.
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  The employment impact of globalisation in developing countries

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2002

  This paper discusses the analytical framework of the globalisation-employment relationship in developing countries, focusing on the manufacturing sector.The authors argue that the neo-liberal conclusion that simply opening up economies to global market forces is a good - perhaps the only - way to promote employment and growth today is unwarranted.
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  Providing global public goods: managing globalisazation

  Office of Development Studies, UNDP, 2003

  The book focuses on understanding the nature of global public goods and explaining precisely how their provision works, and how it could work better.
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  A handbook for value chain research

  Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2003

  This guide aims to assist researchers in formulating and executing value chain research, particularly with a view to framing a policy environment which will assist poor producers and poor countries to participate effectively in the global economy.The Handbook offers:a broad overview, defining value chains, introducing key concepts and discussing the contribution of value chain analysis
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  World Economic Outlook: growth and institutions: April 2003

  World Economic Outlook, 2003

  This issue of the IMF's six-monthly report looks at the state of the global economy in 2003. It also looks systematically at the impacts of which structural and institutional reforms have on long-term economic growth.Many countries acknowledge that structural reforms will enhance long-run growth, but at the same time legitimately point to the transition costs of implementing them.
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  From North-South to South-South: the true face of global competition

  UNDP Special Unit for Technical Cooperation among Developing Countires, 2002

  The globalisation of capital has made the world smaller and safer for investorsThis paper underlines that:many developing nations, particularly the Asian countries, were strongly resisting a U.S.-led proposal by developed countries to link trade to environmental and labour standards through a new “social clause” in WTO agreementscompetition in the production of goods is believed to
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  The WTO-led system of global governance: tactical options and strategic debates amongst civil society organisations worldwide

  Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2002

  The ‘Mobilisation against Globalisation’ that caught world public attention in Seattle drew on old and new, local, national, regional and international actions and campaigns on many issues over many years and included representatives from African countries. However, the major powers and the WTO secretariat quickly recovered their equilibrium.

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