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  Reports on the international financial architecture [International Financial Crisis / Transparency and Accountability / Strengthening Financial Systems]

  World Bank, 1998

  Motivated by Asian financial crisis, reports from 3 working groups examine issues related to the stability of the international financial system and the effective functioning of global capital markets.
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  Made in China?: The Growth of Chinese Trade

  Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1998

  Traces the growth of Chinese exports in the post-Mao era, and the implications for policy making within China. The first part of the paper provides a statistical overview of the growth in Chinese trade since 1978, and suggests that this growth was achieved through a combination of two key factors.
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  Business opportunities with the Asian Development Bank

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 1999

  Listing of current opportunities and programmes. Includes details of:business opportunitiesconsulting servicesprocurementprivate sector operationscofinancing opportunitiesemployment opportunitiesinternship programADB - Japan Scholarship Program
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  Biodiversity Conservation in the Tropics - gaps in habitat protected and funding priorities

  UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 1997

  Study makes use of extensive spatial datasets, not previously available, to provide a comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of biodiversity throughout the tropics. The extent to which potential habitats and closed moist forests are represented in protected areas is assessed.
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  Good Governance and Trade Policy: Are They the Keys to Africa's Global Integration and Growth?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Model testing the influence of trade and governance policies on economic performanceTurning the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa around requires badly needed national policy reform—abandoning the region's restrictive fiscal, monetary, property, and wage policies and trade barriers.
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  Towards a new international financial architecture: Report of the Task Force of the Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 1999

  Recommendations on new institutions needed to cope with finanancial globalisation, and to avoid crises such those in East Asia and Latin America
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  Pastoralists, paravets and privatisation: experiences in the Sanaag Region of Somaliland

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1996

  The civil war in Somalia between 1988 and 1991 resulted in considerable loss of human life and destruction of local infrastructure and government services throughout the country. In August 1991 ACTIONAID, in collaboration with VETAID, visited Sanaag region in the self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland.
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  Dollarization in emerging-market economies and its policy impact for the United States

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 1999

  Reviews the case for/against maintaining a national currency in the context of high levels of de facto dollarisation, the role of currency boards and the likely impacts on the USA
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  The continuing Asian financial crisis: global adjustment and trade

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 1999

  Uses a multi-region computable general equilibrium model to analyze the impact of the Asian crisis thus far, highlighting the implications of possible future developments in Japan and China. The main conclusion is that depreciation of the yen would tend to have an adverse impact on the rest of Asia, even if Japanese growth were to be restored.
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  A Framework for Regulating Microfinance Institutions

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Is there a need to regulate microfinance institutions? If so, what activities should be regulated? Who should regulate them? And what issues are fundamental to the sector's regulation?The continuum of institutions providing microfinance cannot develop fully without a regulatory environment conducive to their growth.

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