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  Institutional issues for developing countries in intellectual property policymaking, administration and enforcement

  Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002

  Study examining the institutional capacities for intellectual property policy making, administration and enforcement which exist in poor countries and the recent technical co-operation programmes which have sought to re-enforce them.
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  Does globalization help the poor?

  Alternet, 2002

  This article criticises the negative impact of the advocates of of economic globalization (World Bank; IMF; WTO) on the world's poor.The article finds that:the advocates of globalisation stress that those that oppose globalisation are hurting the poor by arresting the development of free trade and liberalisationeconomic globalisation is causing an acceleration in poverty and inequal
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  Debt issues in Africa: thinking beyond the HIPC initiative to solving structural problems

  WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, 2001

  Will the debt problem be over if the HIPIC initiative is fully successful and managed to write-off all debt that owed to Africa?This paper examines the historical origin of African debt and the structural problems the continent is confronted with. The literature about the origins of the African debt crisis lists a number of factors as its cause.
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  Industry structure and regulation

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  With increasing private provision of public infrastructure and redefinition of the role of government, a key question must be addressed: How should providers of infrastructure be regulated?
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  Testing the induced innovation hypothesis in South African agriculture : an error correction approach

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Apparently factor prices do matter in agricultural production and in the selection of production technology. And in South Africa, more attention should be focused on the technological needs of small scale farmers.
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  Price support at any price : costs and benefits of alternative agricultural policies for Poland

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Poland's agriculture sector can defend its income only by becoming more efficient --- by relying less on price supports and reducing farm employment, among other things.Orlowski argues that Poland must choose an agricultural policy that promotes efficiency, structural change, and adjustment to the new market environment and eventual membership in the European Union.
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  Reports on the international financial architecture [International Financial Crisis / Transparency and Accountability / Strengthening Financial Systems]

  World Bank, 1998

  Motivated by Asian financial crisis, reports from 3 working groups examine issues related to the stability of the international financial system and the effective functioning of global capital markets.
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  The continuing Asian financial crisis: global adjustment and trade

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 1999

  Uses a multi-region computable general equilibrium model to analyze the impact of the Asian crisis thus far, highlighting the implications of possible future developments in Japan and China. The main conclusion is that depreciation of the yen would tend to have an adverse impact on the rest of Asia, even if Japanese growth were to be restored.
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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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  Conflict, Development and the Lomé Convention

  Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 1999

  Examines the idea of conflict prevention as a new theme in development theory. It analyses conflict and development in a variety of aspects and raises the question of whether international conflict prevention is merely a new fashion in development theory.

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