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    Competition policy, development and developing countries

    Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 1999
    The paper suggests a number of concepts and principles of economics that, although fully grounded in modern economic analysis, have not as yet been applied to the field of competition policy in developing countries.To summarise the main conclusions:1) It is important for developing countries to have a competition policy which takes account of their level of development and the objective of
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    Striking a balance for trade and sustainable development

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001
    To contribute to sustainable development trade policy must be built from the bottom up through democratic processes that balance the interests of different stakeholders.
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    Population and environmental change: from linkages to policy issues

    Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 1999
    Population dynamics, poverty and environmental change are linked in many ways and through multiple social and economic mechanisms, at various geographic levels. But not all those linkages have relevance for policy formulation in one of the three domains thus interconnected.
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    Business services in the Globalizing African economies

    Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998
    Discusses the role of business services in the economy in general and especially in the low-income African economies. At the global level large transnational business service firms are developing global service networks linking the world’s large cities together and serving especially the large transnational companies, but apparently largely by-passing Africa.
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    Issues paper for OECD Emerging Market Forum on electronic commerce

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2001
    The paper explores the key issues related to global electronic commerce, particularly as they apply to emerging market economies (EMEs). It outlines the background and current situation of global electronic commerce and highlights key issues for discussion.
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    Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares

    OECD Development Centre, 1992
    The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.
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    New technologies and the global race for knowledge

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1999
    The recent great strides in technology present tremendous opportunities for human developmenbut achieving that potential depends on how technology is used.
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    Failed Magic or Social Context?: Market Liberalization and the Rural Poor in Malawi

    Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1996
    One of the key questions in the debates swirling around structural adjustment programs in Africa is their effects on the poor. Have these programs "benefited ... the rural poor disproportionately", as concluded in Adjustment in Africa (World Bank 1994)? The answer for rural families studied over a period of years in Malawi is no.
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    Structural adjustment and Moroccan agriculture: an assessment of the reforms in the sugar and cereal sectors

    OECD Development Centre, 1992
    This paper reviews the process of agricultural policy reforms in Morocco in the 1980's, with particular emphasis on the cereals and sugar sub-sectors.
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    Zambia: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

    Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997
    Main purpose of this report is to present a balanced assessment of prospects for sustainable growth in smallholder agriculture in Zambia in the light of recent reforms. Given their historical underdevelopment in Zambia, and policy emphasis on the interface between state and market, the report also focuses particularly on the role of NGOs.

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