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  India: An integral part of new Asia

  Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, University of Singapore, 2004

  As East Asian economies emerge from the shadow of the 1997 crisis, there appears to be an increasing recognition that greater economic coordination and cooperation among major Asian countries is essential to manage globalisation challenges, and to enhance Asia’s role in the world affairs.
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  The WTO in 2003: structural shifts, state-of-play and prospects for the Doha Round

  Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2003

  Much has changed in the transition from the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The WTO goes deeper and wider than its predecessor the GATT, and the Doha Round of negotiations proposes to enter territories such as investment, competition and environment-related policies.
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  Globalization, poverty, and all that: factor endowment versus productivity views

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2004

  This paper assesses to what extent factor endowment models help to understand important globalisation and poverty processes.
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  What are the right institutions in a globalizing world?: and…. can we keep them if we’ve found them?

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper asks whether globalisation forces the standardisation of domestic institutions and reduces the set of choices a country can make, which in turn may diminish its chances of raising growth and protecting the poor.
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  Understanding reform with special reference to Africa: perspective on reform

  Global Development Network, 2004

  This paper discusses the issues that reformers need to address to improve the chances of successful implementation of major policy changes in African societies.
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  The WTO agreement on rules of origin: implications for South Asia

  Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2003

  The history of 'rules of origin' – the criteria for determining the national source of origin of products – have become an essential part of any trade policy regime, for commercial policy tools, more often than not, discriminate among countries.
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  The new Asian realism: economics and politics of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue

  Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2003

  In the post-Cold War era, there has been a surge in initiatives to strengthen existing and creating new regional organisations all over the world.
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  Globalization and rural poverty

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper looks at the impact of globalisation on rural poverty, in both the agricultural and non-agricultural sector.The paper analyses the processes through which globalisation, in terms of openness to foreign trade and long-term capital flows, affects the lives of the rural poor.
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  Globalization’s bystanders: does globalization hurt countries that do not participate?

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper asks how globalisation by the larger part of the world’s economy has affected those countries that have not participated. It uses a trade theory to examine the effects of trade liberalisation on countries that do not participate in multilateral trade negotiations, and countries that lie outside of preferential trading arrangements such as free trade areas (FTA).
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  Globalisation and the environment: lessons from the Americas

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004

  This report examines the environmental impacts of trade reform policies in the Americas. It is the product of a series of studies by the "Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas", which includes development and environmental economists from the regions.The report shows that in Latin America the environment has so far not profited from globalisation.

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