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    Mega-regional trade agreements: strategic implications for South Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    For many years the Doha Round of negotiations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) had been in the doldrums, with little apparent prospect of success in its primary aim. In the wake of the ninth WTO ministerial conference in Bali in December 2013 there is renewed optimism that the WTO can deliver, and that something can still be made of the Round.
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    Banking and monetary crises: impacts on exports of MENA countries

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    To date, there has been relatively limited literature treating the impact of financial crises on exports. This paper deals with the impacts of financial crises on the exports of goods and the exports of services in the case of MENA countries. It tries to quantify both the level and duration of exports collapse due to monetary and banking crises.
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    Sino-American rivalry in the context of Asia-Pacific economic regionalism

    State University Higher School of Economics,, Russian Federation, 2014
    The rise of Asian regionalism and Sino-American rivalry are determining trends in the Asia-Pacific region. Asian economic indicators remain stable and growing even during the severe global crisis of 2008 and have become more and more comparable to those of developed countries.
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    The formal and informal framework of foreign direct investment

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    In the paper,  the authors have analysed the impact of formal regulatioThey confirmed that those regulations can indeed contribute to increasing FDI inflows. They also complemented those first results by analysing the interaction of formal regulations with key informal institutions’ generalised trust, finding that trust had an independent positive impact on FDI.
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    a comparative analysis of the determinants of foreign direct investment in The Arab World and in Asia

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    Foreign direct investment (FDI) is supposed to increase a country’s productivity through a more efficient use of capital, absorption of unemployed resources and a better combination of foreign advanced management skills with domestic labour and inputs.
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    Is there anything special with intra-Arab capital flows?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    This paper examines the determinants if intra-Arab FDI inflows as compared to inflows from non-Arab countries. To this end, the analysis is conducted on two samples separately: one concerns intra-Arab FDI while the other focuses on FDI flows to Arabs from non-Arab countries. 
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    Savings and investment decisions from natural resource revenues: implications for Arab development

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    The Middle East is fortunate to have large endowments of oil and gas.
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    Do global shocks drive investor herds in oil-rich frontier markets?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    This paper examines the dynamic relationship between global fundamentals and market factors and herding behavior in the five oil rich, frontier stock markets of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) - Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait, Qatar and Saud Arabia - using a time-varying transition probability Markov-switching model (TVTP-MS).
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    India-Pakistan trade: qualitative perceptions from stakeholders

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2012
    The South Asian region is said to be the least integrated region in terms of economy with very low regional trade level compared to other regions in the world. Over the years, various trade accords, for instance, SAARC, SAFTA and SAPTA, had been signed by the regional countries to enhance the economic integration and boost the trade level.
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    South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) and implication for Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2013
    South Asian region constitutes around 22 percent of world’s population, potential market for the world due to its huge population and it has its own importance due to its geo-strategic location and abundance of natural resources. South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) is in the process of implementation.

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