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    Foreign and local investment in East Africa, interactions and policy implications: case studies on Mauritius, Uganda and Kenya

    Equity and Growth through Economic Research, 2000
    This study was designed to explore whether foreign direct investment (FDI) squeezes out locals, or conversely opens up opportunities for them. The paper also hypothesises that local investment might sometimes take the lead, that an improvement in the business climate which stimulated local investment might act to attract FDI (foreign direct investment).
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    Sustaining high rates of economic growth in India

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2001
    This article looks at means of strengthening India's growth strategy.The article suggests:a strategy focussing on export-led growth, which among other things requires greater emphasis on special economic zones, and openness of the economy, liberalization in India's labor laws, de-reservation of products for the small scale industry and other measures for the deregulation of India's priv
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    New thinking on poverty in the UK: any lessons for the South?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2000
    The briefing assesses the policies and targets to reduce poverty in the UK. The paper discusses the possibility of transferring some of the lessons learned in the North to the SouthConclusions:focusing on the experience of the North does not imply that there is a 'model' on offer that can be transferred to the South.
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    Foreign direct investment: flows, volatility and growth in developing countries

    Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2001
    The authors suggest that it is not the volatility of FDI per se that retards growth but that such volatility captures the growth-retarding effects of unobserved variables.
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    Governing multinationals: the role of foreign direct liability

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2001
    This Briefing Paper outlines the implications of one way of enforcing corporate environmental, social and human rights standards across borders: ‘foreign direct liability’.The briefing paper concentrates on:globalization and the new challenge of corporate governancethe new foreign direct liability agendaan investigation into the reasons why foreign direct liability is happening
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    Negative alchemy?: corruption, compositions of capital flows, and currency crises

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2001
    This article discusses the relationship between crony capitalism and self-fulfilling expectations by international creditors.
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    Getting traction?: sustainable development and the governance of investment

    Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, 2000
    This paper explores new approaches to the global governance of investment which could channel investment, especially foreign direct investment (FDI), towards more socially just and ecologically sustainable development.Part I outlines three sources of dysfunctionality in the current investment regime and argues that global norms are needed to get environmental standards out of being "stuck in
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    Foreign investment in developing countries: does it crowd in domestic investment?

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2000
    This paper assesses the extent to which foreign direct investment in developing countries crowds in or crowds out domestic investment. Paper develops a theoretical model of investment that includes an FDI variable and we proceed to test it with panel data for the period 1970–1996 and the two subperiods 1976–1985 and 1986–1996.
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    Intellectual property rights and foreign direct investment

    Centre for International Economic Studies, School of Economics of the University of Adelaide, 2000
    This paper reviews the theory and evidence on how intellectual property rights may influence decisions on FDI and technology transfers.The message is that, while there are indications that strengthening IPRs can be an effective incentive for inward FDI, it is only a component of a broader set of factors.
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    The least developed countries 2000 report: aid, private capital flows and external debt: the challenge of financing development in the LDC

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2000
    This Report briefly reviews economic growth and social trends in the 1990s. But it focuses in particular on the question of financing development in the least developed countries.

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