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  Globalisation: What Challenges and Opportunities for Governments?

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
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  Local economies and globalisation

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
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  Evidence on trade and wages in the developing world

  OECD Development Centre, 1996

  This paper synthesizes nine in-depth developing country (LDC) studies on the impact of trade upon wages. It is traditionally assumed that in LDCs trade liberalization lowers relative wage dispersion, while raising wage dispersion in DCs.
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  Job and Skill Impacts of New Technology in the East Asian Electronics Industry: Findings from Recent Literature and Annotated Bibliography

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1996

  This paper reviews recent (post-1985) research literature on job and skill impacts associated with new manufacturing technologies and more globalised production in the East Asian electronics export industry. It describes the unique developmental, technological and cultural framework of the industry, as a result of which it is successfully managing the assimilation of new technology.
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  Striving for international competitiveness : lessons from electronics for developing countries : synthesis of findings from the research project

  OECD Development Centre, 1993

  Electronics has become critically important in every country's attempt to restructure or build its competitiveness. The developments in electronics have given rise to an industry with an unprecedented growth record in terms of sales and exports, innovative capacity, and spin-off potential for related services.
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  The OECD Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI): update

  Oxfam, 1998

  The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) is a new investment treaty being negotiated between the world's industrialised countries in the OECD. This briefing paper explains why Oxfam believes that the draft MAI falls far short of establishing a fair framework of rules governing international investment.
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  Globalization and growth prospects in Arab countries / prepared by Patricia Alonso-Gamo, Annalisa Fedelino, and Sebastian Paris Horvitz

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
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  World Labour Report 1997-98: Industrial relations, democracy and social stability

  International Labour Organization, 1999

  The summary and statistical appendix of this report are available on WWW.
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  International Development Policy beyond the White Paper

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Full text of speeches given at a series of meetings at ODI, taking forward issues raised in the DFID White Paper and culminating in a meeting with Clare Short, Secretary of State for Development on 9 April 1998.
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  You Don't have to Be A Giant: How The Changing Terms of Competition in Global Markets are Creating New Possiblities For Danish Companies

  Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, 1999

  Globalism has become an emblem for a whole series of dramatic changes in the international economy. The hyperbole in the media and popular novels that suggests a whirling era of giant companies, shifting money, and hapless governments, often hides the distinctive features of changing markets.

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