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  FDI in Least Developed Countries at a glance

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2001

  This paper is divided into two parts. The first depicts recent trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) to LDCs and changes that have taken place in relevant areas of the regulatory legal framework. The second part presents country profiles of each of the 49 LDCs to enable the reader – at a glance – to get a general picture of the role of FDI in these countries.
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  Savings, investment and growth in South Asia

  South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes, 2000

  Report of a study analysing the performance of the South Asian countries regarding savings and investment rates in comparison with East Asia.Econometric analysis shows that the main factors behind the lower rates of savings in South Asia are:a less rapid decline in the age dependency ratio (which has remained virtually stagnant in Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh), while falling dramat
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  Benchmarking Knowledge-based Economies: OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 1999

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999

  Examines the knowledge-based economy, the challenge of globalisation, and economic performance and competitiveness of OECD countries under twelve main headings.
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  The progress of policy reform and variations in performance at the sub-national level in India

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999

  The reform process in India has so far mainly concentrated at the central level. India has yet to free up its state governments sufficiently so that they can add much greater dynamism to the reforms.
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  Africans query World Bank, IMF governance mantra

  Bretton Woods Project, 2001

  This article discusses the recent trip of President James Wolfensohn and IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler to Mali and Tanzania to meet 22 African leaders in February. The theme of their visit was discussions concerning good governance.Ironically, the efforts to listen to civil society groups directly were minimal.
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  Health and intellectual property rights

  World Health Organization, 2001

  Paper expresses concern that the TRIPS agreement was negotiated with little or no participation from public health authorities, and that WTO member countries are now bound to grant patents for pharmaceutical products.The paper asserts that is this respect TRIPS has caused special problems for developing countries:they are often excluded from the benefits of protection for inventions be
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  How the quality of institutions affects technological deepening in developing countries

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper assesses the effect of institutional quality on R&D expenditures in developing countries. The paper finds that the risk of expropriation and the rule of law are correlated with R&D expenditures.
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  Liberalising foreign investments by pension funds: positive and normative aspects

  OECD Development Centre, 1997

  The paper evaluates the economics of foreign investment regulation for pension funds, with a focus on developing countries, where fully-funded pension systems are being started de novo. The analysis produces three observations.
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  Outflows of capital from China

  OECD Development Centre, 1997

  While the world has been mesmerised by China’s emergence as a major player in international trade, now being one of the world’s top ten traders, and also as an absorber of international capital (second only to the United States), China’s state-owned and other public sector enterprises have been quietly growing in importance as a source of international capital.
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  Regulatory Challenges for Source Countries of Surges in Capital Flows

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1997

  One of the more surprising developments in international financial markets over the last decade has been the growing role of foreign portfolio investment as a channel for international capital flows to developing countries. This is not, however, the first time there has been an abrupt shift in channels or in the volume of flows to these countries.

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