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  Far from home: do foreign investors import higher standards of governance in transition economies?

  Social Science Research Network, 2002

  This paper argues that while a number of recent studies have shown that corruption inhibits foreign direct investment (FDI), comparatively little attention has been given to the behavior of those who have invested in corrupt countries.
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  Effects of financial globalization on developing countries: some empirical evidence

  International Monetary Fund, 2003

  This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on the impact of financial globalisation for developing countries.
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  Democracy, regime stability, and growth

  Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2002

  This study argues that a weak relation between democracy and economic growth found in previous studies is due to the neglect of the increase of stability of institutions over time, and the interaction of this stability with the type of political regime.
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  Foreign direct investment in Southern Africa: determinants, characteristics and implications for economic growth and poverty alleviation

  Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2002

  This paper presents the findings of a study analyzing the major factors determining the form and volume of private foreign direct investment in Southern Africa. This study aims to ascertain (i) what are the primary motivations for investment in Southern Africa and (ii) whether the form of new foreign investment influences its developmental effects.
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  Improving global economic governance

  South Centre, 2002

  Global economic governance refers to the institutions, norms, practises and decision-making processes from which rules, guidelines, standards, and codes arise in order to manage the global economy.
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  Globalisation and children’s rights: what role for the private sector?

  Save the Children Fund, 2002

  This report looks at two aspects of economic globalisation and how they impact on children's rights: foreign private sector investment and the privatisation of basic services.The two major concerns of the authors are that:the investment liberalisation agreements of the WTO are targeting the removal of government entry criteria for foreign investment that ensure such investment benefits
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  Assistance to the transition economies: were there alternatives? 

  William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, 2002

  This paper provides an assessment of the policies that were followed within the transition economies and a discussion about the extent to which there were known alternatives that could have resulted in superior outcomes in terms of:GDP growth and other principal performance indicatorsbuilding honest and competent institutions creating a more transparent and less corrupt system of c
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  Economic Report on Africa 2002: tracking performance and progress

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2002

  How did Africa’s economy perform in the global economic downturn of 2001?
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  Increasing trade and investment: policies, institutions, and development assistance

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002

  First in a series of USAID policy briefs which will "explore solutions to the challenges of international development".
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  Responses to the challenges of globalisation: a study on the international monetary and financial system and on financing for development

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2002

  Discusses the reform of the international monetary and financial architecture as a response to global financial crises and the issue of financing and promoting development as a means to reduce global inequality.

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