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    Southeast Asia Human Development Report 2005

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004
    This report links the concepts of human development, regional economic integration and regional cooperation. It argues that the high level of disparity among countries within South East Asia can be attributed to variations in human resource development and differences in the quality of governance.
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    Helsinki process papers on global economic agenda

    Helsinki Process, 2005
    This document presents a compilation of articles on the global economic agenda, broadly relating to issues of global governance, development finance, debt relief and trade.The articles include:The planet at risk: mobilizing resources for global human securityMaking sense of MDG costingBeyond HIPC: secure sustainable debt relief for poor countriesGetting to home plate: why sm
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    The implications of EU enlargement for the Egyptian economy

    Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt, 2004
    The paper examines the implications of the recent EU enlargement for the Egyptian economy with regards to trade, capital inflows, and labor migration. The study analyzes all three dimensions of the economic relations, focusing on trade and investment, and addressing mainly the issue of labor. For Egypt, this enlargement represents both opportunities and challenges.
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    Globalization and inequality in the Arab region

    Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2003
    The paper investigates the effects of globalisation on the Arab region. For understanding the process of globalisation as increased international economic integration three measures of globalisation are used: the rate of increase in the trade/GDP ratio, the ratio of the stock foreign direct investment to GDP, and the number of immigrants to the US.
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    World Economic and Social Survey 2005: financing for development

    UN, 2005
    The World Economic and Social Survey 2005 provides a comprehensive review of the wide-ranging challenges addressed in the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
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    Foreign direct investment in the financial sector: experiences in Asia, central and eastern Europe and Latin America

    Bank for International Settlements, 2005
    This paper summarises main findings of a workshop on foreign direct investment in the financial sector of emerging market economies organised by the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS).Points of discussion raised in the workshop include:intensified competition, improved availability and quality of banking services, technology transfer and easier access to capital were genera
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    The economics of the "European Neighbourhood Policy": an initial assessment

    Center for Social and Economic Research, Poland, 2005
    What is the general framework of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP)? How does it affect the EU and its neighbors?
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    The GATS, South African local governments and water services

    Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2005
    This briefing paper provides background information on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) agreement.
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    Making fiscal decentralisation work in Vietnam

    International Studies Programmme, Georgia State University, 2005
    The goal of this paper is to provide a description of the strengths and weaknesses of Vietnam’s current system of decentralisation and to propose alternative measures to increase both the efficiency and equity with which the system may be able to operate in the future.
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    Taking stock of foreign institutional investors

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005
    This paper considers the emergence of foreign institutional investors (FIIs) as a force in India’s capital markets, compensating for the the relatively low levels of foreign direct investment (FDI).

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