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    Capital Controls: Country Experiences with Their Use and Liberalization

    International Monetary Fund, 2000
    Aims to develop a deeper understanding of the role that capital controls may play in coping with volatile movements of capital, as well as complex issues surrounding capital account liberalization. It provides a detailed analysis of specific country cases to shed light on the potential benefits or costs of capital controls, including those used in crisis situations.
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    Assessing Globalization: briefing papers

    Development Economics Vice Presidency, World Bank, 2000
    Series of World Bank Briefing Papers looks at how to define globalization and then assesses three leading questions about globalization by looking at the evidence from a large number of countries. Is globalization increasing world poverty?
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    Foreign Direct Investment in India: Issues and Problems.

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000
    Attempts to identify the issues and problems associated with India’s current foreign direct investment regime, and more importantly the other associated factors responsible for India’s unattractiveness as an investment location.Despite India offering a large domestic market, rule of law, low labor costs, and a well working democracy, her performance in attracting FDI flows has been far from sat
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    The Political Economy of Policy Failure in Zambia

    Swedish Working Papers in Economics, 2000
    Zambia’s experience in the 1990s illustrates that, on their own, policy changes will not redress decades of mismanagement, especially when the degree of commitment of the elite remains unaltered.In 1991, the Movement for Multiparty Democracy won the elections on a reform platform, promising to reverse the economic decline and to introduce more inclusive politics.
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    The impact of transparency on foreign direct investment

    Economic Research and Analysis Division, World Trade Organisation (WTO), 1999
    Non-transparency is a term given in this paper to a set of government policies that increase the risk and uncertainty faced by economic actors foreign investors.
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    Foreign direct investment and the opening up of China's economy

    Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales, 2000
    China’s opening up policy has aimed at promoting exports, while protecting the domestic market. This was achieved through a dualistic trade regime which has granted tariff exemptions on imports of intermediate by export-oriented industries, and through a selective policy which has channelled FDI into manufacturing production targeted for exports or for import substitution.
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    Liberalising China's capital account: lessons drawn from Thailand's experience

    East Asian Regional Network, Global Development Network, 2000
    This article explores how China might choose to liberalise its capital account. The article emphasises the importance of nuanced and careful removal of capital restriction, allowing for quicker/radical removal of restrictions in some cases and slower/gradual removal in other cases.
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    Eighth Session of the ECA Conference of Ministers of Finance (Finance for Development in Africa - An issues paper)

    Financing for Development, 2000
    The aim of this Issues Paper is to review the mix of actions necessary to finance the developmental goals of Africa and to present policy options for the consideration of African Finance Ministers.Policy recommendations:While it is essential to mobilise all domestic resources to reduce the resource gap this will only be feasible in the long term.
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    The impact of economic integration on FDI and exports: a gravity approach

    Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, 2000
    This paper uses the gravity-model approach to deal with two issues related to economic integration. The first concern is to analyse the impact on FDI stocks of specific variables denoting the will to integrate, and their relative impact on exports.
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    Proposed strategy for a regional exchange rate arrangement in post-crisis East Asia

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    This article suggests that a coordinated action by East Asian countries to stabilize their currencies against a common basket of major currencies (broadly representative of their average structure of trade and foreign direct investment) would help stabilize both intra-regional exchange rates and effective exchange rates-in a way consistent with the medium-term objective of promoting trade, investm

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