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  Intellectual property and development: lessons from recent economic research

  World Bank Publications, 2005

  This collection of essays brings together studies conducted by World Bank or Bank-affiliated economic researchers on the economic underpinnings of different forms of IPR protection.Topics covered include: how stronger protection of intellectual property rights affects international trade flowsthe role of intellectual property rights in encouraging foreign direct investment and tech
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  FDI flows to asia: did the dragon crowd out the tigers?

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  This working paper suggests that China did not have a significant impact on foreign direct investment (FDI) to other Asian countries.
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  Prospects for foreign direct investment and the strategies of transnational corporations, 2004-2007

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004

  This report investigates prospects for foreign direct investment (FDI) over the coming years (2004 -2007). It examines global, regional, national, as well as industry trends.
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  Asia-Pacific Regional Outlook (2005)

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  This report gives an overview of the current state of the economy in the Asian Pacific region, and also offers some projections for the near future.
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  Intra-Arab exports and direct investment: an empirical analysis

  Arab Monetary Fund, United Arab Emirates, 2005

  This paper analyses the determinants of intra-Arab exports and FDI during the 1997-2003 period. It does that against a background of a multitude of preferential trading arrangements currently under way in the Arab world. It argues that the problem with Arab exports is not the dearth of Arab free trade agreements but the deficiency of Arab export capability.
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  Regional Integration and productivity: the experiences of Brazil and Mexico

  2002

  One of the main motivations behind the free trade agreements is the hope to increase productivity. This paper evaluates the impact of integration on productivity.
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  Bringing the state back in: lessons from East Asia’s development experience

  Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2005

  As policy makers in the transition economies of Eastern Europe are looking to the experiences and examples of North American and Europe for economic growth and development, this paper argues that there is great number of lessons to be learned from East Asia’s development experience.
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  Global partnership for development: Thailand's contribution to millennium development goal 8

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  Thailand has become an important emerging donor, trading partner, and provider of foreign direct investment for the benefit its poorer neighbours and those beyond its borders.
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  Economic development in Africa: rethinking the role of foreign direct investment

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005

  This report makes the point that, despite an increased focus on attracting foreign direct investment to Africa, the continent at present accounts for just 2 to 3 per cent of global flows, and the majority of FDI has been drawn into into enclaves of export-oriented primary production with limited linkages to the rest of the economy, and limited capacity to trickle down to poor people.
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  Globalisation and education: what do the trade, investment and migration literatures tell us?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  This paper examines the effects of education on globalisation, and vice versa, the effects of globalisation on education, as well as looking at the role of public policies in reconciling processes of human resource development and globalisation.The main links between economic globalisation processes and education are examined by discussing and testing three issues:the quantity and quali

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