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    Trade and Development Report 2002

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2002
    The Trade and Development Report 2002 analyses trends and outlooks for the world economy and focuses on export dynamism and industrialisation in developing countries.
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    The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD): A Commentary

    Pambazuka, 2002
    Report which welcomes the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and particularly the engagement of the G8 countries as an important political moment but expresses a number of concerns.These can be summarised as follows:NEPAD is a starting point for discussion in Africa, but did not result from appropriate participatory strategies.
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    Aid and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: accounting for transmission mechanisms

    Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2006
    This revised paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive empirical literature in this area, existing studies have not addressed directly the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth.
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    Risky business: how the World Bank’s insurance arm fails the poor and harms the environment

    Friends of the Earth, 2002
    This report provides basic information about the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)does, and assesses its record of supporting environmentally damaging, developmentally dubious projects. It gives an overview of MIGA’s current activities, membership, funding sources, recent growth, and role within the larger political risk insurance industry.
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    2002 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers

    United States Trade Representative, 2002
    This USTR report provides an inventory of the most important foreign barriers affecting U.S. exports of goods and services, foreign direct investment by U.S. persons, and protection of intellectual property rights. Its purpose is to guide US policy in reducing or eliminating these barriers and to act as a tool in enforcing U.S. trade laws.
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    Another PSIRU critique of another version of the World Bank private sector development strategy

    Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU, 2002
    In December 2001, the World Bank (WB) issued a revised strategy for Private Sector Development (PSD).
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    Promoting a European framework for corporate social responsibility

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2001
    Response to a July 2001 European Commision Green Paper on corporate social responsibility. Argues that an EU strategy should recognise the value of considering all dimensions of business impacts on the economy, on society and the environment in an integrated way. The role and value of both voluntary and regulatory approaches must be considered alongside one another.
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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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    The economic burden of malaria

    Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, WHO, 2001
    There is a strong link between malaria levels and a country’s economic growth, according to a research report from the World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Macroeconomics and Health.The research used a number of mathematical models to correlate epidemiological data for malaria and data on national income, based on gross domestic product per capita, between 1965 and 1990.
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    Intellectual property rights and development

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2001
    Preliminary draft that aims to encourage policy discussion on the impact of intellectual property rights on development with particular reference to the TRIPS agreement. The draft paper draws no conclusions but provides a comprehensive summary of issues with particular reference to developing countries.

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