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  Trade reforms in India ten years on: how has it fared compared to its East Asian neighbours?

  Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2002

  This paper examines the impact of India’s economic reforms in the 1990s on its international trade linkages with the rest of the world. The paper summarises recent trade reforms in India and documents the extent to which the country has integrated with the global trading system.
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  International investment and human rights: political and legal issues

  Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2003

  This paper constitutes an exploratory examination of some of the issues involved in the foreign investment-human rights nexus. It studies the patterns of global investment flows and the legal mechanisms that regulate them, as well as human rights legislation.
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  How can developing countries benefit from globalization: the case of China

  Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), 2003

  China’s experience has often been used as a successful example to prove that developing countries can actually benefit from globalisation.
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  Complex approach to creating favorable conditions for investors: experience of the Novgorod oblast

  Institute for Financial Studies, Russian Federation, 2002

  The full text of this paper is in Russian language only.This paper explores why, in spite of poor initial economic conditions, the regional administration of Novgorod oblast in the Russian Federation has out perfomed similar Russian regions.
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  Land theme paper (sustainable livelihoods)

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000

  This paper examines the challenges of institutional, organisational and policy reform around land in Southern Africa. It analyses the land situation in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and identifies key issues for further research in each of these countries. Findings include:
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  Clean up your computer: working conditions in the electronics sector

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2004

  This paper analyses the labour standards and working conditions in computing manufacturing, particularly in developing countries where many stages of computer production are carried out by low-skilled and low-paid workers.The paper finds that unlike their counterparts in the clothing and footwear sector, computer companies have thus far escaped scrutiny on labour issues.
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  The pull and push factors in North-South private capital flows: conceptual issues and empirical estimates

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003

  This paper attempts to explain private capital flows to developing countries through a model framework that approaches the issue from the perspective of a capital-exporting developed country and which also takes cognizance of developments in other industrialised countries that could be competing with developing countries for private capital flows.
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  Determinants of European Union enterprises relocation in Bulgaria

  Center for the Study of Democracy, Bulgaria, 2003

  In 1997, a massive flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Bulgaria was triggered by the introduction of the Currency Board and International Monetary Fund agreements.
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  Towards a socially sustainable world economy: an analysis of the social pillars of globalization

  International Labour Organization, 2001

  This paper presents a synthesis of the main results of a study of the social impact of globalisation in seven countries (Bangladesh, Chile, the Republic of Korea, Mauritius, Poland, South Africa and Switzerland), and discusses a range of analytical and policy issues of relevance to International Labor Organization (ILO) member states.Findings include:globalisation is a multifaceted proc
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  The new global determinants of FDI flows to developing countries

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2003

  This paper investigates the determinants of FDI inflows to developing countries, with a particular emphasis on the impact of the ‘third wave of democratisation’ that started in the early 1980s and the spread of information and communication technology (ICT) that began in the late 1980s.The paper finds:democratisation and ICT increase FDI inflows to developing countriesat present the

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