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    Does privatisation of plantations help poor people?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Forest plantations have many benefits. They provide wood and other forest products, contribute to biodiversity, improve landscapes and soils, play an important role in absorbing carbon and help to maintain water quality. Local and national economies also benefit as plantations provide employment, infrastructure and opportunities for small-scale enterprises.
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    Migrants lack information on UK banks’ remittance services

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
    Money sent by migrants to their families is the second largest financial flow to the developing world, after foreign direct investment. However, there is little information on remittance products and services available to migrants.  A new project ‘Sending Money Home?’ based in the UK, aims to fill this gap and make money transfers easier for those on a low income.
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    Reality check: the distributional impact of privatization in developing countries

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2005
    This report looks at the privatisation of state-owned enterprises as a market reform. The volume brings together a comprehensive set of country studies on the effects of privatisation on people.
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    Economic Survey of China 2005 - Policy Brief

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005
    This policy brief presents the assessment and recommendations of the 2005 OECD Economic Survey of China. The Economic Survey of China assesses the state of the Chinese economy and also highlights.Main assessments of the survey include:China’s economic growth has averaged 9½ per cent over the past two decades.
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    Will China eat our lunch or take us out to dinner? Simulating the transition paths of the U.S., EU, Japan and China

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005
    People in the developed world are ageing, and economic projections have shown how this demographic is likely to lead to capital shortage, reducing real wages per unit of human capital in order to compensate for benefit-related tax hikes. This paper posits that adding China to the model dramatically alters this prediction.
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    A currency basket for East Asia: not just China

    Institute for International Economics, USA, 2005
    China recently announced that it is adopting a basket of currencies as the peg for its exchange rate instead of the US dollar. This move raises the question of whether such a currency basket could be adopted in other East Asian countries.
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    Intellectual property and development: lessons from recent economic research

    World Bank Publications, 2005
    This collection of essays brings together studies conducted by World Bank or Bank-affiliated economic researchers on the economic underpinnings of different forms of IPR protection.Topics covered include: how stronger protection of intellectual property rights affects international trade flowsthe role of intellectual property rights in encouraging foreign direct investment and tech
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    FDI flows to asia: did the dragon crowd out the tigers?

    International Monetary Fund, 2005
    This working paper suggests that China did not have a significant impact on foreign direct investment (FDI) to other Asian countries.
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    Achieving stability in heterogeneous societies: multi-jurisdictional structures and redistribution policies

    Economic Education and Research Consortium,, Russian Federation, 2005
    The paper explores the ways of achieving and supporting stability in multinational, heterogeneous societies. In many social, political and economic situations individuals form groups rather than operate on their own.
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    What might the next emerging-market financial crisis look like?

    Institute for International Economics, USA, 2005
    This paper asks the hyphothetical questions: if a financial crisis affecting a group of emerging economies were to take place sometime over the next three years, where would the crisis likely originate, how could it be transmitted to other economies, and which economies would be most affected by particular transmission or contagion mechanisms?It presents set of indicators to gauge the vulnerab

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