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  Assessment of investment climate in Georgia

  Local Government Information Center, Georgia, 2003

  There is no need to explain the importance of investment for national economies. Investment, along with consumption and savings, plays a central role in a country’s economic performance. However, Georgia lacks the necessary investment resources required for development, and so, foreign investments are considered crucial for economic development and growth.
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  The information revolution and globalization: seizing new opportunities for youth employment

  Youth Employment Summit, 2002

  This paper is about how to harness IT to foster youth employment or livelihood opportunities in developing countries.
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  Water privatisation in Latin America, 2002

  Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002

  This report sets out the main developments and current situation in respect of water privatisation and restructuring in Latin America as at June 2002. It assesses the multinationals active in Latin America; issues of public sector water and resistance; the Argentina crisis; conditionality problems; labour issues; and public finance. It presents developments by country in south and central America.
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  Understanding the links: globalization, health sector reform, gender and reproductive health

  Ford Foundation, 2003

  The paper considers the relevance of globalisation for women’s reproductive health and rights in the context of health sector programs and provides a gender analysis of sector-wide programs (SWAPs) and sector reforms examining how reproductive health is defined in sector-wide programs.
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  Human Development Report 2003: Millennium Development Goals: a compact among nations to end human poverty

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2003

  This year's report proposes a policy approach to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by addressing the structural constraints that impede economic growth and human development.
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  The Political Economy of Latin American Economic Growth

  Global Development Network, 2001

  What are the factors behind Latin America’s poor growth performance? Political reasons for Latin America’s inability to attain the high levels of investment in human and physical capital necessary for sustained economic growth are considered in this paper.
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  Framework Paper on the Political Economics of Growth in Transition Countries

  Global Development Network, 2000

  What were the problems confronting the choices to be made by transition economies? At the start of transition, post-communist countries had the "choice of a system", but at the expense of major costs.
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  Sources of East Asian Growth: Some Evidence from Cross-country Studies

  Global Development Network, 2000

  What are the sources of East Asian growth? This paper analyses the sources of East Asian growth by using the cross-country data sets and utilising the two standard empirical methodologies, growth accounting and regressions.
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  Globalization and equity in the Arab World

  Global Development Network, 2003

  Research into the practical experience of globalisation shows it to be a process of rapid economic integration among countries driven by liberalisation of trade, investment and capital flows, as well as technological change, so why is globalisation feared in the Arab world?
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  Understanding economic growth in specific contexts: an overview of the first phase of the Global Research Project "Explaining Growth"

  Global Development Network, 2003

  What was the rational, method and results of GDN's Global Research Project "Explaining Growth"?

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