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  Sources of growth in South Asian economies

  Global Development Network, 2000

  This paper extracts insights from cross-country analysis about the performance of individual South Asian countries and the region as a whole.
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  State of the Bangladesh economy in FY2000-01: a review of some early signals

  Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2000

  The article examines major developments and trends in the macro economy e.g.
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  Year 2000 country profile: the status of Tanzania with the IMF and the World Bank

  Globalization Challenge Initiative, 2000

  Globalization Challenge Initiative (GCI) publishes the SAP Information Alert Series in order to promote informed debate about IMF and World Bank-financed operations, including the potential political, economic, social and environmental consequences of sectoral and strucural adjustment programs.
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  The WTO agenda and the developing countries

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2000

  The paper argues that, in the light of reforms since the mid-1980s, the developing countries have an interest in a relatively broad-based agenda.
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  Foreign Direct Investment and economic integration in the SAARC region

  South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes, 2000

  The prospect of free trade in South Asia raises the question of the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in regional integration.
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  Racing to the bottom?: foreign investment and air quality in developing countries

  New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 2000

  This article looks at whether globalisation could trigger an environmental "race to the bottom", in which competition for investment and jobs relentlessly degrade environmental standards. The "race to the bottom" theory is tested by examining firstly, air quality data in industrialised countries and selected developing countries (China, Mexico, Brazil).
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  Havens, halos and spaghetti: untangling the evidence about foreign direct investment and the environment

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999

  This paper examines the evidence of opposing claims to there being a 'race to the top' or 'race to the bottom' in the environmental standards of developing countries in the context of the increasing globalisation of capital flows and foreign direct investment.Case studies show that while foreign firms may not have been drawn in by lower standards, they clearly perform like environmental renegad
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  In between biodiversity conservation and Intellectual Property Rights: an analysis of the economic motives of TRIPs and the implementation of sui generis systems

  Genetic Engineering & Intellectual Property Rights Resource Center, 2000

  Paper disputes the assumption that access to genetic resources, foreign investment and technology transfer will in turn benefit developing countries, stimulate their participation in the world market and facilitate their development.Conclusions:implementation costs of TRIPs in developing countries are very high compared to the benefitsTRIPs disregards the moral values in deve
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  How does privatization work?: ownership concentration and enterprise performance in Ukraine

  International Monetary Fund, 2001

  This paper concludes that:the effectiveness of mass privatisation methods that led to a dispersed post-privatisation ownership structure is questionable and suggests that privatization that grants signficant ownership stakes to single parties may have greater efficiency gains than privatization that disperses ownershipseveral years after privatisation ownership structures of individual
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  Go with the flows?: capital account liberalisation and poverty

  Bretton Woods Project, 2001

  This site includes a collection of three papers on Capital Account Liberalisation (CAL) and its link with poverty reduction.The first paper Part 1: From capital account liberalisation to the real economy: putting people first concludes that whilst the means of controlling flows needed to be reconsid

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