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  Privatising basic utilities in Africa: a rejoinder

  International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2007

  This paper offers a critical analysis of Bayliss and McKinley’s 2007 IPC Policy Research Brief on “Privatising Basic Utilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: the MDG Consequences”.The author agrees with their statement that African governments were pushed into accepting private participation in basic infrastructure by international financial institutions and donors.
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  Malaysia: an overview of the legal framework for foreign direct investment

  Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002

  Among the Southeast Asian countries, Malaysia has keenly attracted Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). In this respect, it has constantly striven to maintain the competitiveness of FDI determinants, including the legal infrastructure. Today, Malaysia is encountering fresh challenges, for FDI flows seem to have declined in the region.
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  The WTO in 2003: structural shifts, state-of-play and prospects for the Doha Round

  Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2003

  Much has changed in the transition from the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The WTO goes deeper and wider than its predecessor the GATT, and the Doha Round of negotiations proposes to enter territories such as investment, competition and environment-related policies.
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  Understanding reform with special reference to Africa: perspective on reform

  Global Development Network, 2004

  This paper discusses the issues that reformers need to address to improve the chances of successful implementation of major policy changes in African societies.
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  The new Asian realism: economics and politics of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue

  Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2003

  In the post-Cold War era, there has been a surge in initiatives to strengthen existing and creating new regional organisations all over the world.
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  The future of global governance

  Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, 2004

  This paper assesses the underlying democratic deficiencies and weaknesses in global governance, and examines the forces that might lead to a meaningful change.Motives as well as forces for change include: the need for cooperation: even the most powerful need cooperation with others, and the ‘bargaining equilibrium’ requires important concessionsleveraging limited power: internatio
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  Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2002: toward pro-poor policies: aid, institutions and globalization

  Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group], 2004

  This report presents numerous papers from the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, held in June 2002, in Oslo, Norway.The report contains papers on aid, institutions and globalization, providing a general overview of links between poverty, inequality and growth.
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  Comparing EU free trade agreements: investment

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2004

  This paper discusses and compares a number of free trade agreements the EU holds, namely, The Euro-Mediterranean Association Agreements, EU-Mexico Global Agreement and the EU-Chile Association AgreementAmong the authors findings are:All EU Free Trade Agreements stop short of including protection provisions such as expropriation and compensation clausesdisagreement between EU Membe
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  The ISO and corporate social responsibility: small and medium-sized enterprises

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  The existing social responsibility (SR) debate almost entirely focuses on large enterprises. The drivers of the debate, including NGOs, investors and regulatory authorities, naturally tend to focus on large, high profile companies.
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  International investment perspectives

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  The articles in the report cover a wide range of investment topics, the highlights of which include:foreign direct investment (FDI) in the OCED continued to fall in 2003. This appears to be due to the sluggish macroeconomic performance of many of the larger OCED economies, not least Europe.

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