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  Macroeconomic and structural aspects of the tax reform

  Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting, Russian Federation, 2004

  [The full text of this paper is in Russian language only.] This paper analyzes the tax structure in the Russian economy, proposes a way of reforming the system, and outlines some of the difficulties that the reform will encounter.According to the author’s analysis, the Russian economy is comparable to its developed European counterparts in the gross tax burden but not in the structure of taxes:
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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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  Peripheral participants in global production networks: changing dynamics in the transformation from industrial to intellectual capitalism

  Institute for World Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary, 2003

  What are the modernisation patterns, found in newly integrated peripheral countries and why does hierarchical coordination in global production networks persist?The paper goes against a near consensus in theoretical literature, arguing that hierarchical coordination persists in global production networks (GPNs).
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  Importing low inflation via pegged exchange rates, currency boards and monetary unions

  International Center for Economic Growth, European Center, Budapest, 2003

  How can emerging and transition countries reduce their credibility deficit (the lack of credible institutions to induce credibility in monetary policy) in stabilising inflation expectations at low levels? Would it help to import low inflation from abroad via a fixed exchange rate?
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  Entry modes of foreign direct investment in china: a multinomial logit approach

  Lancaster University Management School, 2004

  Based on transactions cost economics, the study establishes a multinomial logit model in which foreign invested firms are allowed to choose among the four entry modes of FDI in China.
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  Role of multilateral and regional trade disciplines: Kyrgyzstan’s experience

  Center for Social and Economic Research in Kyrgyzstan,, Kyrgyzstan, 2004

  This paper analyzes the process of Kyrgyzstan’s WTO accession and its impact on the republic’s economy and foreign trade balance.The author’s main finding is that the republic’s accession to the WTO did not improve the country’s imports and exports and did not lead to a significant increase in FDI.
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  Will the Millennium Challenge Account be different?

  Washington Quarterly, 2003

  This paper examines the implications of the Bush administration's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), and the possible ramifications for the allocation and delivery of U.S. foreign assistance.
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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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  Financial sector development in the Middle East and North Africa

  International Monetary Fund, 2004

  Based on data collected on a wide range of financial sector indicators, this paper assesses financial sector development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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  India's outward FDI: a giant awakening?

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004

  This paper explores the tremendous increase of outward FDI flows from India, which has grown from $0.6 billion in 1996 to $5.1 billion in 2003, taking India to 14th place in terms of outward FDI stock among developing economies.Key findings of the study include: the most important destinations of Indian outward FDI to-date are the United States (19%) and the Russian Federation (18%), an

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