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  Foreign Direct Investment: the case for development

  War on Want, 2004

  This report presents the outcomes of a seminar on FDI and its merits for development, hosted by War on Want and ActionAid during the the World Social Forum, Mumbai, India January 2004.The seminar challenged the assumption that FDI, in itself, acts as an engine for pro-poor growth.As the report points out, without adequate measures to redistribute the resources coming from FDI, and without me
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  The OECD initiative on investment for development: a policy framework for investment: trade policy

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  This paper explores how trade policy can encourage investment and maximise the contribution of investment to development growth.In order to do so, the paper discusses the changing interrelationship of investment to trade and gives an overview of how trade policies can promote an attractive environment for investment which can lead to economic growth.As the study points out, trade policy make
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  The OECD initiative on investment for development: a policy framework for investment: competition policy

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  This paper examines various ways in which competition policy can contribute to creating an environment that is attractive to domestic and foreign investors and that enhances development.In order to do so the paper outlines the relationship between competition policy and investment as well as between competition policy and investment.
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  ODA and investment for development: what guidance can be drawn form investment climate score boards?

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  This paper explores to what extent investment climate scoreboards provide adequate guidance For FDI and ODA considerations.
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  Baltic states in new economy: FDI, technology flows and innovativeness

  Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research, Poland, 2004

  What is the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in technology transfer and innovativeness in the economies of Baltic States?
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  Product market competition and economic performance in Korea

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  On the premise that increased productivity and thus economic growth depend to a large extent on healthy market competition, the study analyses competition policy in South Korea. As a result of Koreas government-led development strategy, state intervention has dominated its economic policies.
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  Viet Nam: Foreign Direct Investment and postcrisis regional integration

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2004

  This paper analyses the recent developments in FDI flows to Viet Nam and the impact they have on the Vietnamese economy.
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  Flags of inconvenience?: the Global Compact and the future of the United Nations

  Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK, 2004

  The Global Compact, established in 2000 in order to internalise a set of principles in global business, has attracted much criticism related to its role, effects, and accountability.
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  A two-dimensional criterion for tax policy evaluation: a primer from the reform of personal income taxation in Russia

  Institute for the Economy in Transition, Russian Federation, 2004

  This work proposes a new analytical technique for comparing the efficiency of various tax schemes. Knowing what tax rate schedule to select, the author says, is of great relevance to policymakers. That problem is a technically difficult one because whether one tax scheme is more efficient than another depends on what consumer’s welfare function we assume.
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  Ownership structure, corporate governance and enterprise performance: empirical results for Ukraine

  Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting,, Ukraine, 2003

  The paper contains an empirical analysis of the effect of ownership structure on corporate governance and performance of privatized enterprises. The data is obtained from a survey of 202 medium-sized and large industrial firms for the period 1998 to 2000.

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