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  Some Recent Evidence: Why Foreign Direct Investment Flows to Low-Income Countries benefit the few

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Foreign direct investment (FDI) is viewed as a major stimulus to economic growth in developing countries. Its supposed value as a way of dealing with shortages of financial resources as well as shortfalls in technology and skills, has made it a centre of attention for reform-minded policymakers, especially in low-income countries.
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  The IMF and World Bank: undermining democracy and rolling back the state?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Why are anti-IMF protests sweeping the developing world? Is it privileged students and anarchists who are behind the wave of unrest? Who are taking to the streets and how are their livelihoods being affected by liberalisation? Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) merely Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) in another guise?
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  Banking reforms in Africa. What has been learnt?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  One of the major objectives of liberalisation is to boost bank lending to the private sector, which is regarded as the engine of economic growth. However, the growth of commercial bank lending to the private sector following financial liberalisation was disappointing in many countries, especially bank lending to small scale borrowers and start-up enterprises.
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  Social impact of international trade and multinational corporations activities on the people of the Niger Delta of Nigeria: a comparative analysis by gender, generation and socio-cultural differences

  Global Development Network, 2002

  For nearly three decades, petroleum production and consumption has probably brought out both the best and worst of modern civilization in Nigeria.
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  Price,exchange rate volatility and Nigeria's agricultural trade flows: a dynamic analysis.

  African Economic Research Consortium, 1999

  The overall objective of the study is to determine empirically the dynamic effects of exchange rate fluctuations on Nigerian agricultural export markets and to examine the relevance of exchange rate risk in agricultural trade flows.The results of the paper are as follows: Exchange rate volatility has a negative effect on agricultural exports, while price volatility has a positive effect
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  Productivity of the Nigerian tax system: 1970–1990

  African Economic Research Consortium, 1997

  This study evaluates the productivity of the Nigerian tax system for the period 1970-1990. It aims to devise a reasonably accurate estimation of Nigeria’s sustainable revenue profile.
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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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