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  The impact of China’s FDI surge on FDI in South-East Asia: panel data analysis for 1986-2001

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005

  This article assesses to whether China’s surge in foreign direct investment inflows is raising concerns that it is taking such investment away from other South-East Asian economies.
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  The impact of FDI on development: globalisation of R&D by transnational corporations and implications for developing countries

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005

  This paper examines key issues related to the trends towards globalisation of R&D and its implications for developing countries.
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  How does China’s growth affect poverty reduction in Asia, Africa and Latin America?

  Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2004

  This study assesses China’s growth on the world economy and its implications of this for poverty reduction in other developing countries and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The growth of China has implications for other countries through its impact on their exports to China itself (positive) and to third countries (negative), and through their imports from China.
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  Are foreign investors attracted to weak environmental regulations?: evaluating the evidence from China

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2005

  The study examines the whether pollution-intensive industries from rich countries relocate to poor countries with weaker environmental standards.
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  Diaspora, migration and development in the Caribbean

  Canadian Foundation for the Americas, 2004

  This paper examines the developmental impact of the growth of the diasporic economy on Caribbean countries, focusing on the issues of remittances, diasporic exports, brain drain, as well as the new health and security risks associated with migration and mobile populations.It asks whether the benefits of migration such as remittances, diasporic exports and the vent of surplus population redress
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  Globalisation, urbanisation and changing food systems in developing countries

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2004

  As part of the FAO ‘State of Food Insecurity in the World 2004’, this chapter explores how the profound demographic and economic changes are rapidly transforming food systems and the scope and nature of nutritional challenges in the developing world.Key findings of the study include:following rapid urbanisation, rising income and rapid growth in imports of wheat and other commodities, t
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  The macroeconomic impact of remittances in Ghana

  Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four, 2004

  This paper presents Balance of Payments (BOP) estimates of private remittances for Ghana.
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  Workers' remittances: an important and stable source of external development finance

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper examines the relative importance of workers’ remittances as a source of development finance in developing countries and discusses measures that industrial and developing countries could take to increase remittances.The paper first analyses trends and cycles in workers’ remittances in developing countries and compares them to other sources of foreign exchange earnings, such as exports
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  Remittances: "the money of the migrants"

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004

  This brief paper summarises knowledge on migrant remittances in three main areas: the volume of global and regional remittances; the development role of remittances and how this money is used; and how the market for remittance transfers functions.Volume of remittances:Remittances have become the second largest capital inflow to developing countries behind foreign direct investmen
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  Popular attitudes, globalization, and risk

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2004

  This paper looks at the variables in a country attracting FDI, getting better debt rating, and having more local entrepeneurship.It argues that opposition to globalisation may be interpreted, perhaps mistakenly, as xenophobia or hostility to market economics.

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