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    Estimating workers' bargaining power and firms' markup in India: Implications of reforms and labour regulations

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Recently, a number of studies have attempted to estimate workers’ bargaining power and firms’ markup simultaneously, by adopting a more direct approach that allows for imperfections in both product and labour markets.
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    Implications of an EU FTA to the Philippine Labor Market

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014
    The Philippines is currently negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU). This paper is expected to shed light on these negotiations in terms of the possible effects of the FTA on the employment in particular. Conceptually, the effects of FTA on the labor market may come from two sources.
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    Does autonomy matter in state owned enterprises? Evidence from performance contracts in India

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    The empirical effect of enterprise autonomy on the performance of state-owned enterprises is surprisingly scant despite autonomy being a preferred reform instrument in many countries, and often chosen over privatisation.
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    EurAfrique? Africa and Europe in a new century: seminar report

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2008
    This report examines the relationship between Africa and Europe in the 21st Century, and investigates whether this relationship is one of habit or is of real strategic importance to both parties.
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    Crouching tiger, hidden dragon? China and Africa: engaging the world's next superpower

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007
    Chinese trade and assistance to Africa resumed markedly at the end of the Cold War and has grown exponentially since. China’s pragmatic policy focus on economic issues in Africa has been met with rising concern by other powers, notably the United States and European countries such as France, which have had to reassess their relations with the continent as a result.
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    Unemployment burden and its distribution: Theory and evidence from India

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    This paper develops a measure of unemployment that takes into account both the level and intensity of unemployment and that satisfies several desirable properties, including distribution sensitivity (dealing with differences among the unemployed). It can also be decomposed into mean and distributional components and contributions to unemployment by various subgroups of the population.
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    State reconstruction in Zimbabwe: seminar report

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2011
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa hosted a policy advisory group seminar Siavonga, in Zambia, June 2011 on the theme “State Reconstruction in Zimbabwe”.
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    The relative volatility of commodity prices: a reappraisal

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011
    Are the international prices of primary commodities more volatile than those of manufactured goods? This paper studies the volatility of commodity prices on the basis of a large dataset of monthly prices observed in international trade data over the period 2002 to 2011.
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    Development Banks from the BRICS

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The BRIC acronym was created at the beginning of the 2000s to represent a group of four fast-growing economies –Brazil, Russia, India and China – and was changed to BRICS in December 2010 with the inclusion of South Africa.
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    Zimbabwe and South Africa: security takes precedence over economy

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    South Africa and its partners in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) removed Zimbabwe from its agenda following the July 2013 elections in Zimbabwe, which saw Zanu-PF return to power. The decision by SADC to end regional monitoring for Zimbabwe was based on security and political considerations that overlooked the longer-term implications of a slow economic meltdown.

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