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Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) Negotiating Text
Multilateral Agreement on Investment, 1998This document consolidates the text of the agreement considered in the course of the MAI negotiations so far. This text results mainly from the work of expert groups and has not yet been adopted by the MAI Negotiating Group. It is presented with footnotes and proposals that are still under consideration.DocumentThe financial crisis in Asia and foreign direct investment
United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 1998The UNCTAD Secretariat and ICC conducted, jointly, a survey of large multinational corporations (MNCs), with a view towards ascertaining the nature of major companies’ responses to the financial crisis in Asia as far as their foreign direct investment (FDI) in and from the region is concerned. The results are reported here, embedded in a broader analysis of the issues.DocumentStock Markets, Banks, and Economic Growth
Economic Growth Project, World Bank, 1996Dataset available onlineDo well-functioning stock markets and banks promote long-run economic growth? This paper shows that stock market liquidity and banking development both positively, predict growth, capital accumulation, and productivity improvements when entered together in regressions, even after controlling for economic and political factors.DocumentPrivate Sector Participation in the Water and Sanitation Sector
Water Engineering and Development Centre, 1997This paper aims to provide an overview of the principles that should underlay private sector participation in the water and sanitation sub-sector to help inform DFID, together with other stakeholders, on the role and potential of Private Sector Participation (PSP) in its broadest sense and to provide suggestions on what approaches might be appropriate to DFID's programmes and those of others in loDocumentThe IMF's Response to the Asian Crisis
International Monetary Fund, 1999The financial crisis that began to erupt in Asia in mid-1997 has resulted in sharp declines in the currencies, stock markets, and other asset prices of a number of Asian countries; threatened these countries' financial systems; and disrupted their real economies.DocumentExchange rate regimes and inflation and output in Sub-Saharan countries
Bank for International Settlements, 1998The paper studies the role of real exchange rates and exchange rate policies in explaining differences in the economic performance in the CFA franc countries, with their fixed exchange rate regime, and another group of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with more flexible arrangements.DocumentForeign investment in Latin America and the Caribbean 1997
United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1998Innovative analytic bridges are established linking the official data on foreign direct investment flows and related information at the sectoral and company levels found in the specialized press to the information collected directly by the Unit through company questionnaires and interviews.DocumentGuide to the Investment Regimes of the APEC Member Economies
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, 1998National profiles on: background on the foreign investment regime; regulatory framework and investment facilitation; investment protection; investment promotion and incentives; summary of international investment agreements or codes to which the APEC member is a party; assessment of recent trends in foreign investment.DocumentThe FDI-led growth hypothesis: further econometric evidence from China
National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1997Despite a large volume of econometric literature on the impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in developing countries, the question of causality linkage between them has only been investigated very recently.