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    Economic profiling of the creative industries: a desk review

    Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, 2013
    The UN’s Creative Economy Report 2010 notes the increasing acceptance of the role of the creative economy as a leading sector in generating economic growth, employment and trade, and that creative industries are among the most dynamic sectors of the world economy–offering new, high growth opportunities for developing countries.
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    The birth death and survival of exports in Zambia 1999-2011

    Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, 2013
    This paper deals with the dynamics of Zambia’s export performance, analyzing the birth, death and persistence of exporting in various products and destinations. The authors use a framework that has recently proliferated in international trade to decompose the growth of Zambia’s exports into an “intensive” and “extensive” margin.
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    Democratising trade politics in the Americas: insights from the women's, environmental and labour movements

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    This paper explores the extent to which and the ways in which civil society groups are contributing to the democratisation of trade policy and politics in the Americas. It explores the strategies adopted by a range of NGOs and social movements to influence the decision-making processes and the content of the trade agenda.
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    Energy, jobs and skills: a rapid assessment of potential in Mtwara, Tanzania

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2009
    Energy development in Mtwara is a fundamental part of the overall national energy strategy which is based on the desire to move away from hydro-dependent power sources, and the opportunity to achieve this through the development of natural gas for energy development. Therefore, for the purpose of this study, energy focuses specifically on electricity and natural gas.
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    Global crisis, environmental volatility and expansion of the Indian leather industry

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010
    The leather industry occupies a place of prominence in the Indian economy in view of its massive potential for employment, growth and exports. However, the on-going global economic slowdown and the wide erratic behaviour of the overall weather condition particularly in the Europe pose both threat (of market loss) and opportunity (to gain some unanticipated demand in the market) before it.
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    Measuring the inclusivity of inclusive business

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    ‘Inclusive Business’ has enormous potential to contribute positively to development outcomes. Working through core business models, the ‘Inclusive Business’ approach requires minimal outside support and can often reach a scale unattainable by most direct development interventions.
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    Compliance, competitiveness and market access: a study on Indian seafood industry

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2010
    This study attempts to estimate the effects of the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures in terms of trade elasticity of regulations and competitiveness of exports. In spite of the generalised acknowledgment of growing liberalization of trade between countries, there are still numerous obstacles to trade, more of the non-tariff type.
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    Financing pattern of Indian corporate sector under liberalisation: with focus on acquiring firms abroad

    Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2011
    Indian corporate sector has experienced a paradigm shift over the last two decades with the initiation of certain measures of financial liberalisation. As a result of these policy changes, the ratio of Indian FDI outflows to Indian FDI inflows has increased significantly since 2000. An increasing trend in the purchases of firms or assets abroad is also
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    What do regional trade reforms mean for Zambia?

    Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, 2012
    Zambia is participating actively in regional integration programmes, but little is know about the impacts of tariff reforms associated with such initiatives. This paper assesses the potential effects for Zambia of the trade reforms implied in both the COMESA Customs Union and the Tripartite Free Trade Area, specifically by comparing data for 2010 with
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    The last golden land? Chinese private companies go to Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    A new dynamic presence is spreading rapidly and widely across Africa: that of Chinese private enterprises. For these firms, Africa is ‘the last golden land’ of economic opportunity.

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