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    Maximising positive impacts of mining projects: stakeholders and partnerships

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Despite the fact that mining-led growth is one of the few opportunities low-income African nations have of catching up with other countries, mining in Africa is not seen as creating local benefits. There is little co-operation among stakeholders in the minerals sector and long-term planning is poor.
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    China and the Least Developed Countries: an enquiry into the trade relationship during the post-WTO accession period

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2013
    In the post-WTO accession decade, China’s trade relationship with the least developed countries (LDCs) has undergone significant transformation. In this context, the present paper seeks to analyse trends, nature and determinants of the evolving trade relationship between China and the LDCs.
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    Bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs): opportunities and challenges for Bangladesh – framework issues

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2014
    In the backdrop of rise in Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) in developing countries, particularly after the global financial and economic crisis, Bangladesh is still ambivalent in setting its strategies regarding it. The present study tries to explore Bangladesh’s scope for taking market-specific initiatives including FTAs with a view to enhance export.
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    Recent developments in Myanmar: opportunities for sub-regional energy cooperation

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2014
    In the context of the political and economic changes that have marked Myanmar since 2010, this paper assesses the opportunities for sub-regional energy cooperation between four countries: Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar, with Myanmar as a node.
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    Recent developments in Myanmar and new opportunities for sub-regional cooperation: a Bangladesh perspective

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2014
    The current paper analyses the potential opportunities between Bangladesh and Myanmar stemming from sub‐regional cooperation. With the election of a new quasi‐civilian government in 2011, doors have opened for the international community to make the most of Myanmar’s untapped resources.
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    A roadmap for RIC

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014
    The Russia-India-China (RIC) grouping is the only body that brings together the three largest Asian countries at a time when there is a churning in the existing security architecture in the region. But, RIC seems to have lost steam amidst the alphabet soup of multilaterals in which the three countries are engaged, despite some efforts lately to rejuvenate the forum.
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    The Motor Industry Development Programme 1995 - 2012: what have we learned?

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2014
    The Motor Industry Development Programme (MIDP) has been one of the most significant industrial policy interventions since 1994, both because of the powerful incentive structure it established and because of the sheer size of the industry it impacted.
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    India-Sri Lanka bilateral free trade agreement: six years performance and beyond

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    India-Sri Lanka Bilateral Free Trade Agreement signed in 1998 was a pioneering attempt in the direction of trade liberalisation in South Asian region. This paper examines the performance of the Agreement in the first six years of its coming into being and draws lessons from its success that could be relevant in the context of South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) and other such initiatives.
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    Relevance of ‘policy space’ for development: implications for multilateral trade negotiations

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    Development is a process of transforming an economy from concentrated assets based on primary products, to a diverse set of assets based on knowledge. This process involves investing in human, physical and natural capital in manufacturing and services and divesting in rent seeking, commerce, and un-sustainable agriculture (Amsden, 2001, 2-3).
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    Regional economic integration, foreign direct investment and efficiency-seeking industrial restructuring in Asia: the case of India

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2007
    Regional economic integration has been a most striking trend of the 1990s led by Single European Market by European Union in 1992 and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. These RTAs pursued a deeper type of integration covering preferential free trading arrangements complemented by investment liberalisation across the region.

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