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  Business services in the Globalizing African economies

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1998

  Discusses the role of business services in the economy in general and especially in the low-income African economies. At the global level large transnational business service firms are developing global service networks linking the world’s large cities together and serving especially the large transnational companies, but apparently largely by-passing Africa.
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  Conflict, Development and the Lomé Convention

  Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 1999

  Examines the idea of conflict prevention as a new theme in development theory. It analyses conflict and development in a variety of aspects and raises the question of whether international conflict prevention is merely a new fashion in development theory.
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  Improving the Complementarity of European Union Development Cooperation: From the Bottom Up

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 1999

  Attempts to define "complimentarity", term used in the Maastricht Treaty to cover EU wide agreement on specialisation/cooperation in development cooperation provision.Paper reviews past efforts on explicit complementarity initiatives (mainly those involving poverty reduction issues) and suggests main policy opportunities:political climate is favourable for greater complementarity initia
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  A future for labor in the global economy

  Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2001

  Paper seeks to answer the following question: in a liberalised world economy, what programs to increase employment and real wages are implementable by democratic nation states acting independently?In the absence of international co-ordination, globalisation indeed makes it difficult for nation states to affect the relative (after tax) prices of mobile goods and factors of production, and for th
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  Micro-macro linkages in financial markets: the impact of financial liberalisation on access to rural credit in four African countries

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999

  Almost every programme of economic reform contains a financial liberalisation component; but little work has been done to assess the effects of financial liberalisation on access to credit in individual markets.
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  SADC-EU Trade Relations in a Post Lomé World

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Guidelines prepared for the SADC Secretariat on options, opportunities and methods for negotiation of future trade agreements between the European Union and SADC.Summary (25 pages) available online
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  The Facilitation of the Transfer of Learning Material

  Commonwealth of Learning, 1999

  Provides practical advice to producers and users in selling, transferring, purchasing and acquiring teaching materials. It is designed to facilitate the inter-institutional negotiation processes between producers and users and to identify the roles that COL may play in specific transfer and accreditation situations.
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  National trade performance statistics

  International Trade Centre, 1998

  Data is presented by country, both in graphical and table format. Base year is 1997, with analysis of growth trends between 1993 and 1997. Shed lights on the following questions: What are the leading export products of the country concerned? How concentrated or diversified is the country's export portfolio in terms of products?
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  Multinational Firms: Reconciling Theory and Evidence

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1999

  An important component of Robert Lipsey's work has been his research on multinational firms, and his careful documentation of their behavior in terms of production and intra-firm trade. In this paper, we extend recent theory referred to as the knowledge-capital model', which simultaneously generates motives for both horizontal and vertical multinational production.
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  Discriminating Among Alternative Theories of the Multinational Enterprise

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1999

  Recent theoretical developments have incorporated endogenous multinational firms into the general-equilibrium model of trade. One simple taxonomy separates the theory into vertical' models in which firms geographically separate activities by stages of production and horizontal' models of multi-plant firms which duplicate roughly the same activities in many countries.

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