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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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    Trade, income disparity and poverty

    World Trade Organization, 2000
    Report argues that trade liberalization helps poor countries to catch up with rich ones and that this faster economic growth helps to alleviate povertyThe report finds that:To alleviate poverty, developing economies need to grow faster, and the poor need to benefit from this growth.
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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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    Biodiversity conservation and use: local and global considerations

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2000
    Based on field research in the Andes and Amazonia, this paper questions the ability of global intellectual property rights over life forms to improve the livelihood and development of the powerless indigenous and peasant people. Instead, the cross-cultural expansion of the public domain over biodiversity flows and biotechnological processes seems a critical task.
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    Public plant breeding in an era of privatisation

    Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2000
    In an era of increasing privatisation, this paper examines The possibilities and limitations associated with revenue generation through public plant breedingThe opportunities for moving the products of public plant breeding through the private sectorThe need for increased contacts with, and contributions from, private research.Paper concludes the following:Increasing th
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    Assessing the relationship between property rights and technology adoption in smallholder agriculture: a review of issues & empirical methods

    CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2000
    This paper identifies key issues and develops guidelines for conducting research on the relationships between property rights and technology adoption in smallholder agriculture.The topics addressed in the paper are: definition of scope and termskey issues pertaining to the relationships between technology adoption and property rights variables data collection and measurement iss
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    Small and big players in regional trading blocs: Canada's experience with NAFTA

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2000
    The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and the Centre for Trade Policy and Law (CTPL), Carlton University, Ottawa is currently implementing a collaborative programme on Trade Policy Analysis: Bangladesh Monitoring the Impact of WTO.
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    The textile and clothing industry of Bangladesh: in a changing world economy

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 1999
    An Inhouse Dialogue on the theme of Textile and Clothing Industry of Bangladesh: In a Changing World Economy was held at the Centre for Policy Dialogue on August 12, 1999. Dr.
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    Do states have an enabling environment for industrial growth?: some evidence from Karnataka

    Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2000
    The article:Stresses the importance of monitoring project implementation, if reform is to succeedRecords the progress of implementation of investment proposals in KarnatakaSuggests methods for creating an enabling environment for industrial growthConclusions and policy implications:It is not the size of investment proposals but the magnitude of actual project
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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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