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National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006This paper explores the linkages between democratisation and free trade.DocumentPrivatisation of water: public-private partnerships: do they deliver to the poor?
Development Fund, Norway, 2006This document discusses three main themes: how privatisation has been promoted by international financial institutions and other donors as a strategy for financing water services; the effects on the poor of different kinds of privatisation of water services in developing countries; and policy recommendations for the provision of water to the poor.The report shows that the World Bank acknowledgeDocumentGlobal monitoring report, 2006:Millennium Development Goals: strengthening mutual accountability, aid,trade, and governance
World Bank, 2006This report comments on global progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), focusing on aid, trade and financial dimensions of the process. It notes that, despite commitments to raising aid effectiveness from the G8 and the Paris Declaration, the world is still far from achieving the MDGs - particularly Africa and South Asia.DocumentAsia 2015: promoting growth, ending poverty; conference report
Asia 2015 Conference: Promoting Growth, Ending Poverty, 2006This is the report for Asia 2015, a very high profile international conference held in London in March 2006. A key aim of the conference was to to develop a shared understanding of potential challenges to Asia’s capacity to maintain high rates of growth while continuing to move millions out of extreme poverty.DocumentThe impacts of disaster on international trade
World Trade Organization, 2006This paper examines the impact of major disasters on international trade flows using a gravity model.DocumentMalaysia: an overview of the legal framework for foreign direct investment
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002Among the Southeast Asian countries, Malaysia has keenly attracted Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). In this respect, it has constantly striven to maintain the competitiveness of FDI determinants, including the legal infrastructure. Today, Malaysia is encountering fresh challenges, for FDI flows seem to have declined in the region.DocumentWelfare and democracy in Latin America: the development, crises and aftermath of universal, dual and exclusionary social states
United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005This paper examines the evolution of the social state in Latin America, contending that it is more the history of elite accommodation, elite’s state building and elite’s attempts to co-opt and control non-elite sectors than a history of popular achievements and shaping from below.This paper explores basic quantitative data to highlight the relevance of the democracy-welfare hypothesis regardingDocumentG8 Communique: more and better aid?
European Network on Debt and Development, 2005This brief assesses the G8 Communique of the 2005 summit.DocumentIn Focus: Celso Furtado
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005The April 2005 issue of In Focus is dedicated to Brazilian economist Celso Furtado, who so much influenced contemporary notions of under-development. Furtado passed away November 20, 2004, at age 84. To honor Furtado’s intellectual journey and public trajectory, In Focus features contributions from a variety of prestigious contributors.DocumentNGOs at World Trade Organisation: the "democratic" dimension
Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005This article discusses the role of NGOs at the WTO and analyses the interface in order to ascertain the democratic potential of the former, particularly at ministerial conferences.Findings of the article include:within the theoretical paradigm, literature on the rollback of the state provided the overarching impetus for the increasing role of NGOsin 1996 the General Council of the WPages