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Recent developments in international investment agreements
United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005In the context of an ever increasing number of international investment agreements, this study explores some of recent developments in that field.DocumentContracting out of human rights: the Chad–Cameroon pipeline project
Amnesty International, 2005Will an oil pipeline investment agreement between the governments of Chad and Cameroon and a consortium led by ExxonMobil, including Chevron and Petronas pose a serious threat to human rights in Chad and Cameroon?DocumentStructural change and market opening in agriculture: Turkey towards EU accession
Economic Research Center, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 2004The purpose of this study is to identify major elements in the pre-accession period through a description of the agricultural environment in Turkey, together with the possible effects of accession on agriculture.DocumentFiscal policy in Poland: growth booster or growth buster?
Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research, Poland, 2004What are the major challenges for Poland’s fiscal policy and the strategic choices which have to be made in the area of economic policy in Poland’s nearest future?This paper argues that fiscal policy corrects the primary income structure in the economy. This makes fiscal policy the principal instrument promoting a pro-growth, socially balanced structure of income distribution in society.DocumentWorking paper on mitigating currency risk for investing in microfinance institutions in developing countries
Social Enterprise Associates, 2005This paper focuses on the risks associated with the use of foreign direct investments (FDI) by investors in microfinance. Among the many risks involved in such investments, currency and exchange rate fluctuations are principal stumbling blocks reducing private investment in microfinance institutions in less developed countries (LCDs).DocumentCompetitiveness partnerships : building and maintaining public-private dialogue to improve the investment climate
World Bank, 2005Based on the experiences of 40 countries this paper investigates the benefits of competitiveness partnerships - structured dialogue between the public and private sector to improve the investment climate.DocumentTNCs and the removal of textiles and clothing quotas
United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005This study explores the development implications of the phasing out of the quotas on textiles that were previously fixed by the expired Multi Fibre Arrangement. It focuses on the implications for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in and exports from developing countries. It argues that the role of foreign-owned production in the textiles and clothing value chain merits attention.DocumentThe causal relationship between ICT and FDI
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005This paper investigates the simultaneous causal relationship between investments in information and communication technology (ICT) and flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), with reference to its implications on economic growth.DocumentFDI and growth: a causal relationship
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005This paper examines the causal relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and economic growth by using an innovative econometric methodology to study the direction of causality between the two variables.DocumentThe effect of China and India's growth and trade liberalisation on poverty in Africa
Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005Despite the fact that trade between China, India (Asian Drivers) and Africa has grown significantly since 1990, it is only recently that attention has been paid to their impact on the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.Pages