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    Competitiveness partnerships : building and maintaining public-private dialogue to improve the investment climate

    World Bank, 2005
    Based on the experiences of 40 countries this paper investigates the benefits of competitiveness partnerships - structured dialogue between the public and private sector to improve the investment climate.
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    TNCs and the removal of textiles and clothing quotas

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005
    This study explores the development implications of the phasing out of the quotas on textiles that were previously fixed by the expired Multi Fibre Arrangement. It focuses on the implications for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in and exports from developing countries. It argues that the role of foreign-owned production in the textiles and clothing value chain merits attention.
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    The causal relationship between ICT and FDI

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005
    This paper investigates the simultaneous causal relationship between investments in information and communication technology (ICT) and flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), with reference to its implications on economic growth.
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    FDI and growth: a causal relationship

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005
    This paper examines the causal relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and economic growth by using an innovative econometric methodology to study the direction of causality between the two variables.
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    The effect of China and India's growth and trade liberalisation on poverty in Africa

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005
    Despite the fact that trade between China, India (Asian Drivers) and Africa has grown significantly since 1990, it is only recently that attention has been paid to their impact on the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Southeast Asia Human Development Report 2005

    Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004
    This report links the concepts of human development, regional economic integration and regional cooperation. It argues that the high level of disparity among countries within South East Asia can be attributed to variations in human resource development and differences in the quality of governance.
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    Helsinki process papers on global economic agenda

    Helsinki Process, 2005
    This document presents a compilation of articles on the global economic agenda, broadly relating to issues of global governance, development finance, debt relief and trade.The articles include:The planet at risk: mobilizing resources for global human securityMaking sense of MDG costingBeyond HIPC: secure sustainable debt relief for poor countriesGetting to home plate: why sm
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    The implications of EU enlargement for the Egyptian economy

    Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt, 2004
    The paper examines the implications of the recent EU enlargement for the Egyptian economy with regards to trade, capital inflows, and labor migration. The study analyzes all three dimensions of the economic relations, focusing on trade and investment, and addressing mainly the issue of labor. For Egypt, this enlargement represents both opportunities and challenges.
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    Globalization and inequality in the Arab region

    Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2003
    The paper investigates the effects of globalisation on the Arab region. For understanding the process of globalisation as increased international economic integration three measures of globalisation are used: the rate of increase in the trade/GDP ratio, the ratio of the stock foreign direct investment to GDP, and the number of immigrants to the US.
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    World Economic and Social Survey 2005: financing for development

    UN, 2005
    The World Economic and Social Survey 2005 provides a comprehensive review of the wide-ranging challenges addressed in the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

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