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  The FDI-led growth hypothesis: further econometric evidence from China

  National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1997

  Despite a large volume of econometric literature on the impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in developing countries, the question of causality linkage between them has only been investigated very recently.
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  Trends in Private Investment in Developing Countries: Statistics for 1970-96

  International Finance Corporation, 1997

  National accounts normally do not break down gross domestic investment into its private and public sector components. Private investment is defined in this paper as the difference between total gross domestic investment(from national accounts) and consolidated public investment.
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  Determinants of intra - industry trade between East and West Europe

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
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  Institutions in transition : reliability of rules and economic performance in former Socialist countries

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
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  Trade liberalisation in Sub-Saharan Africa : case study of South Africa

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  A striking feature of South Africa's trade liberalisation is that, until 1995, it did not involve any import liberalisation. The focus of earlier liberalisation was the reduction of anti-export bias, and, on the import side, the replacement of QRs with equivalent tariffs and other duties. This distinguishes the process in South Africa from that which has happened in other African liberalisations.
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  World Investment Report 1997

  World Investment Report, UNCTAD, 1997

  Comprehensive analysis of international investment issues.
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  World Investment report 1998

  World Investment Report, UNCTAD, 1998

  Report documents the continuing growth of FDI which reached new record levels in 1997. Apart from standard chapters featuring FDI trends at the global and regional levels, the report covers policy developments as well as the top 100 largest TNCs world wide and the top 50 largest TNCs from developing countries.
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  Made in China?: The Growth of Chinese Trade

  Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1998

  Traces the growth of Chinese exports in the post-Mao era, and the implications for policy making within China. The first part of the paper provides a statistical overview of the growth in Chinese trade since 1978, and suggests that this growth was achieved through a combination of two key factors.
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  Biodiversity Conservation in the Tropics - gaps in habitat protected and funding priorities

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1997

  Study makes use of extensive spatial datasets, not previously available, to provide a comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of biodiversity throughout the tropics. The extent to which potential habitats and closed moist forests are represented in protected areas is assessed.
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  Good Governance and Trade Policy: Are They the Keys to Africa's Global Integration and Growth?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Model testing the influence of trade and governance policies on economic performanceTurning the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa around requires badly needed national policy reform—abandoning the region's restrictive fiscal, monetary, property, and wage policies and trade barriers.

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