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  The increased role of foreign bank entry in emerging markets

  Bank for International Settlements, 2005

  This paper considers the recent transformation of the role of foreign banks in emerging markets.
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  The role of property rights protection on the effects of free trade agreements on foreign direct investment

  Global Development Network, 2003

  Globalization has been associated with an increasing number of free trade agreements focusing mainly on increasing FDI flows to emerging markets.The author argues that international agreements have a differentiated effect on FDI depending on the definition of property rights in the receiving country.
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  Impact of government policies and investment agreements on FDI inflows to developing countries: an empirical evidence

  Global Development Network, 2003

  The last two decades have witnessed an extensive growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to developing countries. This has been accompanied by an increase in competition amongst the developing countries to attract FDI, resulting in a rise in investment incentives offered by the host governments and removal of restrictions on operations of foreign firms in their countries.
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  Foreign direct investment spillovers and the absorption capabilities of domestic firms in the Argentine manufacturing sector (1992-2001)

  Global Development Network, 2004

  This paper explores and analyses to what extent FDI helps structural reform processes and to what extent the growing presence of TNCs generates productivity spillovers for domestic firms.TNCs’ affiliates are a source of both positive and negative spillovers for domestic firms.
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  Does foreign ownership matter? Russian experience

  Global Development Network, 2004

  For transition economies, foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered to be one of the major sources of sustainable economic growth.
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  Realizing the development dividend: making the CDM work for developing countries (Phase I Report)

  Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2005

  The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has a host of objectives not directly related to climate change; it aims to bring host countries socio-economic and environmental benefits through technology transfer and foreign direct investment.
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  Diasporas, remittances and Africa south of the Sahara: a strategic assessment

  Institute for Security Studies, 2005

  Modern African "ethno-national" diasporas of today are very different from the "old" black diaspora which emerged out of the slave trade. Contemporary migrants are very much in touch with their homeland, to which they often remit money on a regular basis. They have an economic and political role to play in the countries of departure as well as arrival.
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  India-East Asia integration: a win-win for Asia

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2005

  As East Asian economies begin to 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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  Security sector reform in Armenia

  Saferworld, 2005
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  Foreign direct investment and regulation: a case study of Thailand’s upstream oil and gas industry

  Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2005

  This paper is to discusses and identifies conditions which can facilitate foreign direct investment (FDI) in the upstream oil and gas industry, where exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas take place.

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