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  Chasing the dragon: accounting for the under performance of India by comparison with China in attracting foreign direct investment

  Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 2003

  This paper seeks to explain why, although both China and India had similar levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the late 1970s, China now attracts far more FDI than India.The analysis focuses on the way in which national and sub-national governments have gone about the task of promoting inward foreign direct investment, and also considers how the governments of the two countries have fa
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  Financial development, growth, and poverty: how close are the links?

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper explores the causal links between finance and economic prosperity. It argues that although empirical cross-country models recognise that financial depth and average GDP growth represent useful starting points for the measurement of cause and effect (input and output), neither is comprehensive or fully satisfactory.
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  How can developing countries benefit from globalization: the case of China

  Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), 2003

  China’s experience has often been used as a successful example to prove that developing countries can actually benefit from globalisation.
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  Clean up your computer: working conditions in the electronics sector

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2004

  This paper analyses the labour standards and working conditions in computing manufacturing, particularly in developing countries where many stages of computer production are carried out by low-skilled and low-paid workers.The paper finds that unlike their counterparts in the clothing and footwear sector, computer companies have thus far escaped scrutiny on labour issues.
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  Level playing field? Making world trade work for all

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The poorest countries are small players in world trade. The combined exports of the 48 least developed countries (LDCs) accounted for only 0.35 per cent of world trade in 1995. Can trade agreements be made to work better for LDCs? Can technical advice improve the negotiating capacity of LDCs?
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  Externalities in rural development: evidence for China

  World Bank, 2002

  The paper tests for external effects of local economic activity on consumption and income growth at the farm-household level using panel data from four provinces of post-reform rural China.
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  China’s plunge into the world economy: prudence or poor judgement?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  China, post-Mao, is dramatically engaged with the world economy. Export growth has exploded by a massive 500 percent since 1980. China now trusts in exports as the engine of growth and the safety net for a domestic restructuring which has created high levels of urban unemployment. What are the consequences of abandoning Mao’s strategy of self-reliance?
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  Tariff and FDI liberalization: what to expect from China's entry into the WTO?

  Global Development Network, 2002

  What features determine the final outcome of the liberalisation process? Who gains and loses with the liberalisation of FDI?
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  What has China accomplished in its first year of WTO membership?

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2002

  The role of China has become more and more prominent in the last two decades: its export rose rapidly and its economic growth increased remarkably. On the 11th December 2001 China gained the WTO membership.This paper summarises China's WTO commitments and it attempts to establish its accomplishments in its first year of WTO membership.
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  Foreign direct investment in China: some lessons for other countries

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2002

  This paper points out both advantages and disadvantages of China’s increasing openness to foreign direct investment (FDI) and provides a list of important lessons for other governments which want to promote growth and productivity in their countries.It identifies that the main factors to contribute to China’s success are:market sizelabour costsquality of infrastructuregovern

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