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  Distribution services: India and the GATS 2000 Negotiations

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2002

  This study examines India’s opportunities and constraints to trade in distribution services in the context of the ongoing GATS (General Agreement on trade in Services) 2000 negotiations.India is a small player in the global market for distribution services.
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  Corruption, perception and Foreign Direct Investment: counting the cost of graft

  Institute for Security Studies, 2002

  This paper looks at recent initiatives taken at an international level to combat corruption, and more importantly the supply side of corruption, ie bribery. These initiatives, although seeking to punish bribe-payers, also place an additional ‘risk’ on doing business in countries, which are perceived as highly corrupt.
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  To what extent is East Africa globalised?

  Economic and Social Research Foundation, Tanzania, 2002

  Using an indicator based on data on African trade as a percentage of world trade, it has been argued that Africa is marginalised in global trade, with the proportion of Africa’s exports and imports in world trade marginal and declining over time.The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the extent of marginalisation by using a new index.
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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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  Economic linkages between South Africa and Mozambique

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2002

  The study tries to address, amongst other questions, what the weaknesses and strengths of integration of the two economies are.
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  Incentives for foreign direct investments: the case of SADC in the 1990s

  Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2002

  What are the incentives for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Southern Africa? In the developing world, the policy of attracting FDI as a substitute for the perceived lack of domestic capital and savings has become a panacea for economic growth and economic development. The returns from FDI are estimated to be higher in Africa than in any other developing area.
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  What has China accomplished in its first year of WTO membership?

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2002

  The role of China has become more and more prominent in the last two decades: its export rose rapidly and its economic growth increased remarkably. On the 11th December 2001 China gained the WTO membership.This paper summarises China's WTO commitments and it attempts to establish its accomplishments in its first year of WTO membership.
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  Foreign direct investment in China: some lessons for other countries

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2002

  This paper points out both advantages and disadvantages of China’s increasing openness to foreign direct investment (FDI) and provides a list of important lessons for other governments which want to promote growth and productivity in their countries.It identifies that the main factors to contribute to China’s success are:market sizelabour costsquality of infrastructuregovern
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  Does foreign direct investment increase the productivity of domestic firms?: in search of spillovers through backward linkages

  World Bank Publications, 2002

  This paper analyses whether the productivity of domestic firms is correlated with the presence of multinationals in downstream sectors. Previous empirical studies did not find definitive positive spillover effects derived from the presence of multinationals because they placed wrong the object of study.
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  Corporate accountability in search of a treaty? Some insights from foreign direct liability

  Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2002

  This Briefing Paper looks at two sets of legal actions that attempted to secure transnational corporate accountability. The cases are examples of increasing efforts to establish ‘foreign direct liability’ – holding parent companies accountable in home country courts to people affected by their environmental, social or human rights impacts in other countries.

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