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  Does globalization help the poor?

  Alternet, 2002

  This article criticises the negative impact of the advocates of of economic globalization (World Bank; IMF; WTO) on the world's poor.The article finds that:the advocates of globalisation stress that those that oppose globalisation are hurting the poor by arresting the development of free trade and liberalisationeconomic globalisation is causing an acceleration in poverty and inequal
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  Industry structure and regulation

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  With increasing private provision of public infrastructure and redefinition of the role of government, a key question must be addressed: How should providers of infrastructure be regulated?
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  Testing the induced innovation hypothesis in South African agriculture : an error correction approach

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  Apparently factor prices do matter in agricultural production and in the selection of production technology. And in South Africa, more attention should be focused on the technological needs of small scale farmers.
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  Price support at any price : costs and benefits of alternative agricultural policies for Poland

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  Poland's agriculture sector can defend its income only by becoming more efficient --- by relying less on price supports and reducing farm employment, among other things.Orlowski argues that Poland must choose an agricultural policy that promotes efficiency, structural change, and adjustment to the new market environment and eventual membership in the European Union.
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  The continuing Asian financial crisis: global adjustment and trade

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 1999

  Uses a multi-region computable general equilibrium model to analyze the impact of the Asian crisis thus far, highlighting the implications of possible future developments in Japan and China. The main conclusion is that depreciation of the yen would tend to have an adverse impact on the rest of Asia, even if Japanese growth were to be restored.
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  Business services in the Globalizing African economies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Discusses the role of business services in the economy in general and especially in the low-income African economies. At the global level large transnational business service firms are developing global service networks linking the world’s large cities together and serving especially the large transnational companies, but apparently largely by-passing Africa.
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  Conflict, Development and the Lomé Convention

  Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 1999

  Examines the idea of conflict prevention as a new theme in development theory. It analyses conflict and development in a variety of aspects and raises the question of whether international conflict prevention is merely a new fashion in development theory.
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  Trade Liberalization in a Dynamic Setting: Implications of a New WTO Round

  Brookings Institution, 1999

  Explores the impacts of a new WTO Round of trade liberalization over the period from 2000 to 2010, using a model that allows for short run unemployment, adjustment costs in capital formation, international flows of financial assets and forward looking expectations of the announced policy changes.
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  Why liberalization alone has not improved agricultural productivity in Zambia: the role of asset ownership and working capital constraints

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000

  In the early 1990s, Zambia initiated an ambitious program of liberalization that significantly opened the economy, shifting from a highly regulated and centralized to a more market-based and liberal economic paradigm.
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  Fin(d)ing our way on trade and labor standards?

  International Labour Organization, 2001

  With the impasse over whether and how to link labor standards and trade agreements stretching into its eighth year, attention has turned to "monetary assessments," or fines, as alternatives to trade sanctions.Fines have the advantage of adding "teeth" to agreements on labor standards without impeding trade and may be more palatable to developing countries than trade measures.

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