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  Foreign direct investment in Southern Africa: determinants, characteristics and implications for economic growth and poverty alleviation

  Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2002

  This paper presents the findings of a study analyzing the major factors determining the form and volume of private foreign direct investment in Southern Africa. This study aims to ascertain (i) what are the primary motivations for investment in Southern Africa and (ii) whether the form of new foreign investment influences its developmental effects.
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  Improving global economic governance

  South Centre, 2002

  Global economic governance refers to the institutions, norms, practises and decision-making processes from which rules, guidelines, standards, and codes arise in order to manage the global economy.
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  Human traffic, human rights: redefining victim protection

  Anti-Slavery International, 2002

  This paper is a culmination of a two year research study in 10 countries by Anti-Slavery International on how to ensure that governments place victim protection at the core of their anti-trafficking policies.
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  Global Civil Society 2002

  Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London, 2002

  In this publication the authors explore the relation between global civil society and globalisation, and between global civil society and the September 11 events, from different angles. They discuss the different meanings given to the attacks, and reactions to it, from above, but especially from below.
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  Human rights and democratic development in Africa: policy considerations for Africa's development in the new millennium

  Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2002

  This paper argues that Nepad fails to adequately define democracy or to examine the relationship between development, peace, democracy and the realisation of human rights.
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  Globalisation and children’s rights: what role for the private sector?

  Save the Children Fund, 2002

  This report looks at two aspects of economic globalisation and how they impact on children's rights: foreign private sector investment and the privatisation of basic services.The two major concerns of the authors are that:the investment liberalisation agreements of the WTO are targeting the removal of government entry criteria for foreign investment that ensure such investment benefits
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  Assistance to the transition economies: were there alternatives? 

  William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, 2002

  This paper provides an assessment of the policies that were followed within the transition economies and a discussion about the extent to which there were known alternatives that could have resulted in superior outcomes in terms of:GDP growth and other principal performance indicatorsbuilding honest and competent institutions creating a more transparent and less corrupt system of c
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  Economic Report on Africa 2002: tracking performance and progress

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2002

  How did Africa’s economy perform in the global economic downturn of 2001?
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  Increasing trade and investment: policies, institutions, and development assistance

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  First in a series of USAID policy briefs which will "explore solutions to the challenges of international development".
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  Improving the management of sustainable development: towards a new strategic framework for large developing countries: China, India, and Indonesia

  Institute of Advanced Studies. United Nations University,, 2002

  Based on the case study analyses of China, India, and Indonesia, this report introduces and examines some of the important issues related to developing a national strategy for sustainable development.

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