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  Liberalization, prudential supervision, and capital requirements: the policy trade-offs

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  This paper investigates the importance of the quality of prudential supervision during financial liberalisation and its implications for the level of minimum capital requirements.
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  The causal relationship between ICT and FDI

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper investigates the simultaneous causal relationship between investments in information and communication technology (ICT) and flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), with reference to its implications on economic growth.
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  FDI and growth: a causal relationship

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper examines the causal relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and economic growth by using an innovative econometric methodology to study the direction of causality between the two variables.
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  The effect of China and India's growth and trade liberalisation on poverty in Africa

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  Despite the fact that trade between China, India (Asian Drivers) and Africa has grown significantly since 1990, it is only recently that attention has been paid to their impact on the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Southeast Asia Human Development Report 2005

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004

  This report links the concepts of human development, regional economic integration and regional cooperation. It argues that the high level of disparity among countries within South East Asia can be attributed to variations in human resource development and differences in the quality of governance.
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  Helsinki process papers on global economic agenda

  Helsinki Process, 2005

  This document presents a compilation of articles on the global economic agenda, broadly relating to issues of global governance, development finance, debt relief and trade.The articles include:The planet at risk: mobilizing resources for global human securityMaking sense of MDG costingBeyond HIPC: secure sustainable debt relief for poor countriesGetting to home plate: why sm
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  An analysis of tax structure changes in the MENA region in response to trade liberalization

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2003

  The paper provides an empirical examination of how tax structures of MENA region countries changed in response to extensive trade liberalization in the mid-1980s. In the 1990s, countries reached substantial new agreements on tariff reduction, which have significantly led to lowering the use of international trade taxes.
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  The implications of EU enlargement for the Egyptian economy

  Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt, 2004

  The paper examines the implications of the recent EU enlargement for the Egyptian economy with regards to trade, capital inflows, and labor migration. The study analyzes all three dimensions of the economic relations, focusing on trade and investment, and addressing mainly the issue of labor. For Egypt, this enlargement represents both opportunities and challenges.
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  Globalization and inequality in the Arab region

  Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2003

  The paper investigates the effects of globalisation on the Arab region. For understanding the process of globalisation as increased international economic integration three measures of globalisation are used: the rate of increase in the trade/GDP ratio, the ratio of the stock foreign direct investment to GDP, and the number of immigrants to the US.
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  World Economic and Social Survey 2005: financing for development

  UN, 2005

  The World Economic and Social Survey 2005 provides a comprehensive review of the wide-ranging challenges addressed in the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

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