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Information communication technologies, poverty and empowerment
Department for International Development, UK, 2001Increasingly, questions concerning who will benefit and who will be left out of the ICTrevolution are coming to the fore in policy debates.DocumentThe new globalization era and digitalization debate: an economist's perspective
GDNet document store, 2001The central argument of this paper is that the key problems of globalization: environmental degredation, inequality and insecurity can be addressed by a digitalization or knowledge revolution, driven by the technologies for processing and communicating it.The paper examines each of these key problems in turn and then examines the potential for a knowledge revolution to address them.DocumentPatterns of trade and foreign direct investment in Africa: a simple test of the new trade theory with multinationals
Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2000This study presents an empirical survey of the patterns of trade and FDI in Africa based on a sample of 28 countries and their transactions with the OECD countries.DocumentGlobalisation and industrial location: the impact of trade policy when geography matters
Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2000The paper shows how industrial location and welfare depends on “most-favoured nation” (MFN) versus distance-related trade barriersThe article finds that:manufacturing production will cluster close to the periphery if transport costs are relatively highin central areas if MFN barriers are relatively high, the peripheries will be at a disadvantage, which increases when trade barriersDocumentHuman rights, religious conflict, and globalization: ultimate values in a new world order
Management of Social Transformations Clearing House, 1999The belief in innate human rights has achieved quasi-religious status in the late-modern world.DocumentThe global governance of trade as if development really mattered
United Nations Development Programme, 2001This paper presents an alternative account of economic development, one which questions the centrality of trade and trade policy and emphasizes instead the critical role of domestic institutional innovations. It argues that economic growth is rarely sparked by imported blueprints and opening up the economy is hardly ever critical at the outset.DocumentGlobal economic prospects and the developing countries 2002
Prospects for Development [World Bank], 2001This report argues for reshaping the global architecture of world trade to promote development and poverty reduction.DocumentForeign direct investment and international agreements: a south perspective
South Centre, 2001The case against an MAI style agreement is stronger now than when the original agreement was dismissed by the OECD.DocumentEducating nomadic herders out of poverty?: culture, education and poverty in Turkana and Karamoja
World Bank, 2001This research article was carried out under the umbrella of the Learning and Research Program on Culture and Poverty of the World Bank.