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  Globalization and inequality in the Arab region

  Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2003

  The paper investigates the effects of globalisation on the Arab region. For understanding the process of globalisation as increased international economic integration three measures of globalisation are used: the rate of increase in the trade/GDP ratio, the ratio of the stock foreign direct investment to GDP, and the number of immigrants to the US.
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  Twilight statuses: a closer examination of the unauthorized population

  Migration Policy Institute, 2005

  This paper discusses the situation of unauthorised migrants in the United States, describing the twilight statuses that some among the unauthorised population hold. These are described as partially recognised legal statuses not yet counting as full lawful residence, and usually not providing solid defence against deportation if they are discovered and placed into removal proceedings.
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  NAFTA's promise and reality: lessons from Mexico for the Hemisphere

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003

  The report has two objectives: to determine how quality of life in Mexico has been affected by trade liberalisation in North America. It focuses on the microlevel of people and their communities, on changes in household income, paychecks, rural employment and agricultural production.
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  Exploiting remittances: good for Mexico’s development?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  More and more money is being sent back home by economic migrants and so the interest in how remittances can help fight poverty is growing. The total value of remittances world wide is estimated at over 100 billion US dollars per year. In 2001 Mexico became the nation with the largest share of remittances as its workers sent home 9,920 million US dollars.
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  What are the right institutions in a globalizing world?: and…. can we keep them if we’ve found them?

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper asks whether globalisation forces the standardisation of domestic institutions and reduces the set of choices a country can make, which in turn may diminish its chances of raising growth and protecting the poor.
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  The Indian diaspora’s political efforts in the United States

  Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2004

  As the Indian diaspora has begun to assert its financial and political power in the United States since the 1990’s, the Indian government has been developing a process of granting dual-citizenship to certain persons of Indian origin.
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  The disease of the day: acute treatyitis: the myths and consequences of free trade agreements with the US

  GRAIN, 2004

  While the World Trade Organization (WTO) (following the failure of negotiations in Cancun) and FTAA have been said to be floundering, the paper argues that another epidemic of 'treatyitis' has been spreading, that is the flourishing of bilateral free trade agreements initiated by the US, EU, Australia, Canada, and the Asia-Pacific economic block.The paper argues that this is an attempt to speed
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  The globalization of the software industry: perspectives and opportunities for developed and developing countries

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2004

  The spectacular growth of the software industry in some non-G7 economies has aroused both interest and concern in the USA.
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  Erosion of ethnic identity: is globalisation to blame?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Why is the international community concerned about preservation of biodiversity yet indifferent to the erosion of cultural diversity? Why do we consider habitats as worthy of conservation yet make so little effort to accumulate indigenous knowledge concerning them? Can the eroding power of globalisation on minority cultures be checked?
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  Cultural Similarity and International Trade: Evidence from the US and Chinese Panel Data

  Global Development Network, 2001

  Have cultural links become more important in foreign trade than geographical proximity? This paper maintains that since the 1980s, especially the early 1990s when the Cold War came to an end, economic activities in homogeneous cultural environments have become more and more important than in heterogeneous environments.

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