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    Striking a balance for trade and sustainable development

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001
    To contribute to sustainable development trade policy must be built from the bottom up through democratic processes that balance the interests of different stakeholders.
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    Strengthening demand: a framework for financing sustainable development

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001
    The steady erosion in official development assistance (ODA), combined with declining effectiveness and legitimacy of domestic revenue-raising efforts have sharply reduced support for programmes of capacity building, poverty eradication, and environmental conservation. Commercial credit and direct investment are growing but continue to focus on large-scale industry and infrastructure projects.
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    Export incentives in India within WTO framework

    Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2001
    This paper examines the WTO Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM Agreement), from which India, like other low-income countries has been exempted from the prohibition of export subsidies.
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    Liberalisation, multinational enterprises and export performance: evidence from Indian manufacturing.

    Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2001
    This paper tests two hypotheses.
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    Coffee markets in East Africa: Local responses to global challenges or global responses to local challenges?

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2001
    This paper seeks looks at the dynamics of coffee market reforms in three East African countries (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania) against the background of the recent restructuring of the global coffee marketing chain, and poses the following questions: To what extent is global economic change mediated by national-level policies?Are global corporations adopting the same strategies in differ
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    Localism in Thailand: a study of globalisation and its discontents

    Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1999
    This article indicates that the discontent over perceived negative impacts arising from liberalisation and globalisation need to be more carefully considered.The article finds that:the critiques emanating from non-governmental organisations and social movements are considered to be amongst the most significantan example of a critique of globalisation is localism.
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    Cosmopolitanism and organised violence

    London School of Economics (=British Library for Political and Economic Science (BLPES)), 2000
    In this paper, the author argues for a cosmopolitan political project as a way of responding to the spread of ‘New Wars’.The article finds that:the nation-state system is exhausting itself‘new wars’ is an extreme manifestation of the erosion of the autonomy of the nation-stateglobalisation is a wild process involving interconnectedness and exclusion, integration and fragmentati
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    Our future pensions and globalisation: an exploration of the issue using the INGENUE model

    Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales, 2001
    Paper argues that the demographic characteristics and disparities of pension schemes will lead to strongly contrasting trends in the supply and demand for capital across the various regions of the world, in this century.The long term trend of demographic ageing across the world stems from the fall in fertility rates and the rise in life expectancy to an advanced age.
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    African development in the context of new world trade and financial regimes: the role of the WTO and its relationship to the World Bank and the IMF

    African Economic Research Consortium, 2000
    This paper analyses of the recent evolution of the world's trade and financial regimes from a primarily African perspective and makes the case that African development prospects could be improved through the improved functioning of the World Bank, IMF and WTO and coordination between them.The paper explores the role of external sector policies in African development, provides a review of the Af
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    African agriculture in the WTO framework

    African Economic Research Consortium, 1999
    This paper attempts to analyse what impact the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA) will have on African agriculture within the new WTO framework.The paper begins with a broad analysis of the structure and growth of African agriculture and identifies key internal and external factors that seem to explain the structure and performance of Africa’s agricultural production and trade.

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