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  Increasing trade and investment: policies, institutions, and development assistance

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  First in a series of USAID policy briefs which will "explore solutions to the challenges of international development".
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  Improving the management of sustainable development: towards a new strategic framework for large developing countries: China, India, and Indonesia

  Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2002

  Based on the case study analyses of China, India, and Indonesia, this report introduces and examines some of the important issues related to developing a national strategy for sustainable development.
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  Commodity dependence, trade, and growth: when ”openness” is not enough

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2002

  Levels and changes in the value of exports and imports divided by aggregate GDP (the trade/GDP ratio) are occasionally used as measures of trade “openness.” The oft-quoted work of Dollar and Kraay (2001) and the World Bank (2002) uses changes in the trade/GDP as a basis for classifying countries as “globalizers” or “non-globalizers.
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  Trade and Development Report 2002

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2002

  The Trade and Development Report 2002 analyses trends and outlooks for the world economy and focuses on export dynamism and industrialisation in developing countries.
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  Globalisation and the future state

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002

  This paper provides a critical overview of debates about the role of the state in development in a context of globalisation.
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  Is globalisation good for Africa?

  School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University, Sweden, 2002

  Globalisation or market integration in Sub-Saharan Africa is closely linked to the structural adjustment programmes.
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  The unremarkable record of liberalized trade

  Economic Policy Institute, USA, 2001

  The paper presents evidence suggesting that reductions in poverty and income inequality remain elusive in most parts of the world despite trade liberalisation and infact greater integration of deregulated trade and capital flows over the last two decades has likely undermined efforts to raise living standards for the world’s poor.The paper argues that:unregulated capital and trade flows
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  A.T. Kearney / Foreign Policy Magazine Globalization Index 2002

  Foreign Policy [Journal], 2002

  Index for the year 2000 of the 20 most globalised countries in the World, plus analysis of the globalisation process.
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  Aid and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: accounting for transmission mechanisms

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2006

  This revised paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive empirical literature in this area, existing studies have not addressed directly the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth.
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  Risky business: how the World Bank’s insurance arm fails the poor and harms the environment

  Friends of the Earth, 2002

  This report provides basic information about the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)does, and assesses its record of supporting environmentally damaging, developmentally dubious projects. It gives an overview of MIGA’s current activities, membership, funding sources, recent growth, and role within the larger political risk insurance industry.

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