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    NEPAD and the African ‘resource gap’: a critical examination

    Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2002
    The ‘New Partnership for Africa’s Development’ (NEPAD) is the latest attempt by African leaders to formulate an initiative to boost development on the continent, but is it a feasible approach for the continent?
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    Ranking the rich: the first annual CGD/FP commitment to development index

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2003
    Foreign Policy and the Center for Global Development have developed a new ranking system that grades the efforts of the 21 richest nations to assist the development of poorer nations.
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    Chasing shadows: re-imagining finance for development

    Jubilee Research, 2002
    Starting from the premise that finance is not about money, but about the relationships among people, states, markets and natural environment, this report provides three key-features so that finance can become a “real” tool for development.The paper warns that:in order to achieve the objectives of global security and meeting basic human development needs, the imbalance between free marke
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    Remittances and other financial flows to developing countries

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 2002
    This paper examines the flows of migrants' remittances in relation to other financial flows to developing countries. Since remittances by unofficial channels by all estimates are significant, the remittance amounts reported here are quite conservative. Official estimates of migrants’ remittances are in the order of US$ 100 billion annually, some 60 percent of which go to developing countries.
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    The sustainability of the current account deficit and external debt in Vietnam

    Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2001
    The objective of this study is to examine Vietnams current account deficit and external debt sustainability in the 1990s, and the period 2001-10.The study finds that: During 1989-99, the current account deficit and external debt of Vietnam were sustainable. In general, imports were substantially restrained in comparison with the levels it could have reached, except for the year 1996
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    The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD): A Commentary

    Pambazuka, 2002
    Report which welcomes the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and particularly the engagement of the G8 countries as an important political moment but expresses a number of concerns.These can be summarised as follows:NEPAD is a starting point for discussion in Africa, but did not result from appropriate participatory strategies.
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    Aid and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: accounting for transmission mechanisms

    Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2006
    This revised paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive empirical literature in this area, existing studies have not addressed directly the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth.
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    Responses to the challenges of globalisation: a study on the international monetary and financial system and on financing for development

    European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2002
    Discusses the reform of the international monetary and financial architecture as a response to global financial crises and the issue of financing and promoting development as a means to reduce global inequality.
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    MIGA in Africa

    Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, 2005
    The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency is part of the World Bank Group, mitigating political risks to investments through:GuaranteesCurrency inconvertibility and transfer restrictionsExpropriationWar and civil disturbanceBreach of contractDispute mediation servicesMIGA also provides technical assistance to governments and online information on investment o
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    The surge in capital inflows to developing countries : prospects and policy response

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Foreign interest rates have been the "push" factor driving capital inflows and determining their magnitude, but country creditworthiness has influenced the timing and geographic destination of the new capital flows.

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