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  The malaria gap

  American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2001

  This article, published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, examines the diverse mechanisms through which malaria can effect long-term economic development. It explores the significant gap between estimates of the economic impact of malaria derived from microeconomic and macroeconomic studies, and considers the implications of this for resource allocation.
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  Measuring competitiveness in the world’s smallest economies: introducing the SSMECI

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2004

  This paper seeks to contribute to the process of new policy development in small states by measuring their industrial competitiveness record using a composite index and benchmarking them against each other.Because of the lack of adequate indices, the paper constructs its own small states manufactured export competitiveness index (SSMECI), based on three subcomponents, namely manufactured export
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  South-South investment agreements profilerating - press release

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004

  This document assesses recent trends in agreements on investments between developing countries.
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  Global partnerships for development: Millennium Development Goal No 8, progress report by Norway 2004

  Information from the Norwegian Government and the Ministries, 2004

  This paper examines how far Norway has come in its efforts to reach the seven targets of the eighth Millennium Development Goal (MDG), and target 9 of the seventh MDG.
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  Behind the shine : the other Shell Report 2003

  Friends of the Earth International, 2003

  Based on evidence from people around the world who live in the shadows of Shell’s various operations, this report assesses the company’s performance. It finds that Shells performs poorly as a leading corporate social responsibility advocate. In addition, the report highlights that Shell failed to address the concerns of Shell fenceline communities.
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  Remittances: "the money of the migrants"

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004

  This brief paper summarises knowledge on migrant remittances in three main areas: the volume of global and regional remittances; the development role of remittances and how this money is used; and how the market for remittance transfers functions.Volume of remittances:Remittances have become the second largest capital inflow to developing countries behind foreign direct investmen
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  Peripheral participants in global production networks: changing dynamics in the transformation from industrial to intellectual capitalism

  Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary, 2003

  What are the modernisation patterns, found in newly integrated peripheral countries and why does hierarchical coordination in global production networks persist?The paper goes against a near consensus in theoretical literature, arguing that hierarchical coordination persists in global production networks (GPNs).
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  Entry modes of foreign direct investment in china: a multinomial logit approach

  Lancaster University Management School, 2004

  Based on transactions cost economics, the study establishes a multinomial logit model in which foreign invested firms are allowed to choose among the four entry modes of FDI in China.
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  Role of multilateral and regional trade disciplines: Kyrgyzstan’s experience

  Center for Social and Economic Research in Kyrgyzstan,, Kyrgyzstan, 2004

  This paper analyzes the process of Kyrgyzstan’s WTO accession and its impact on the republic’s economy and foreign trade balance.The author’s main finding is that the republic’s accession to the WTO did not improve the country’s imports and exports and did not lead to a significant increase in FDI.
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  Will the Millennium Challenge Account be different?

  Washington Quarterly, 2003

  This paper examines the implications of the Bush administration's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), and the possible ramifications for the allocation and delivery of U.S. foreign assistance.

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