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    Another PSIRU critique of another version of the World Bank private sector development strategy

    Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002
    In December 2001, the World Bank (WB) issued a revised strategy for Private Sector Development (PSD).
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    Promoting a European framework for corporate social responsibility

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001
    Response to a July 2001 European Commision Green Paper on corporate social responsibility. Argues that an EU strategy should recognise the value of considering all dimensions of business impacts on the economy, on society and the environment in an integrated way. The role and value of both voluntary and regulatory approaches must be considered alongside one another.
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    Responses to the challenges of globalisation: a study on the international monetary and financial system and on financing for development

    European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2002
    Discusses the reform of the international monetary and financial architecture as a response to global financial crises and the issue of financing and promoting development as a means to reduce global inequality.
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    The economic burden of malaria

    Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001
    There is a strong link between malaria levels and a country’s economic growth, according to a research report from the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Macroeconomics and Health.The research used a number of mathematical models to correlate epidemiological data for malaria and data on national income, based on gross domestic product per capita, between 1965 and 1990.
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    Intellectual property rights and development

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2001
    Preliminary draft that aims to encourage policy discussion on the impact of intellectual property rights on development with particular reference to the TRIPS agreement. The draft paper draws no conclusions but provides a comprehensive summary of issues with particular reference to developing countries.
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    Openness, firms, and competition

    World Bank, 2001
    This paper examines the impact of greater foreign competition on domestic firms.
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    Globalization and workers in developing countries

    World Bank, 2001
    This article reviews academic literature concerned with globalisation.The article focuses on:the effects of openness to trade, foreign direct investment and financial crises on average wagesthe impact of exposure to world markets on the dispersion of wages by occupation, skill and genderthe pattern of job destruction and job creation associated with globalization.the impact
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    Foreign direct investment: a lead driver for sustainable development?

    Stakeholder Forum, 2001
    In consideration of a number of advantages and disadvantages of Foreign Direct Investment, and analysis of regional trends, the author considers the "role and responsibilities of institutions in order to utilise FDI in a more effective manner".
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    Patterns of trade and foreign direct investment in Africa: a simple test of the new trade theory with multinationals

    Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2000
    This study presents an empirical survey of the patterns of trade and FDI in Africa based on a sample of 28 countries and their transactions with the OECD countries.
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    Foreign direct investment and international agreements: a south perspective

    South Centre, 2001
    The case against an MAI style agreement is stronger now than when the original agreement was dismissed by the OECD.

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