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  Migrant remittances to developing countries: a scoping study: overview and introduction to issues for pro-poor financial services

  Bannock Consulting, 2003

  This study offers an introduction to remittances and their developmental contributions, with a particular focus on issues related to financial services.
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  Private capital flows to Africa: perception and reality

  Forum on Debt and Development, 1999

  This book presents the facts on the scale and composition of private capital flows to Africa and the difficulties in monitoring them, looks at what motivates people to invest, focuses on the macroeconomic impact and policy implications of capital flows, and identifies measures which will help African governments to attract more development-oriented private flows.
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  International investment treaties and developing countries

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This briefing (9th in the IDS Trade and Development Background Briefings) analyses the need for a multilateral regulation of investment and the prospects that such an agreement has to take place within the framework of the WTO.Claims include:over the past ten years, foreign direct investment (FDI) to developing countries has increased five-foldthe increasing globalisation of capital
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  Trade in services

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This briefing (7th in the IDS Trade and Development Background Briefings) analyses the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and explores its consequences for developing countries.
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  Intellectual property rights

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  This briefing (6th in the IDS Trade and Development Background Briefings) analyses the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) and its effects for developing countries.Claims include:the inclusion of intellectual property in the Uruguay Round agenda largely resulted from industrial country concern about inadequate protection against imitation, espe
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  Effects of North American Free Trade Agreement on agriculture and the rural economy

  Economics, Statistics and Market Information System, USDA Economics and Statistics System, 2002

  This report evaluates the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on U.S. agriculture and the rural economy. The report begins with a broad overview of the impact of NAFTA on U.S. agriculture, and follows with a more detailed account of the effects on a number of commodities.Findings include:U.S.
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  Lessons from NAFTA for Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries: a summary of research findings

  Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2003

  This report attempts to draw lessons from the participation of Mexico in NAFTA in order to provide guidance to other Latin American countries on what they can expect from this type of trade agreement, and to identify policies that can help them derive the maximum benefits from trade integration in the Americas.Findings include:without NAFTA, global exports would have been roughly 25% lo
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  Globalization and poverty

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  This paper explores the effects of globalisation on the poorest people in developing countries through the analysis of cross-sectional data.Findings include:the case for trade openness improving growth is a reasonable one for generalisationthe case for a linkage between liberalisation policies and trade is mixedthe case for trade exacerbating inequality (which could impact the p
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  Development of financial markets in Russia: an outlook

  New Economic School,, Russian Federation, 2003

  [The full text of this paper is in Russian language only, presented at XIV NES Scientific Conference]This paper explores the obstacles to development of Russia's financial markets and provides specific policy recommendations about the regulation of the financial sector.The research is based mainly on author’s experience gained during his work as a Chair of the Council of Federation Committee
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  Transnational corporations in conflict prone zones: public policy responses and a framework for action

  International Alert, 2003

  Private sector activity is a significant factor influencing the shape and intensity of many conflicts. However, there has to date been little effort to engage different types of private sector actors systematically in conflict prevention.

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