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  Conditioning Debt Relief on Adjustment: Creating the Conditions for More Indebtedness

  Development Group for Alternative Policies, 1999

  Argues that there is a positive linear relationship between the number of years that countries implement adjustment programs and increases in debt levels.
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  Multinational Firms and Technology Transfer

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  A developing country may attract foreign direct investment (FDI) for (1) technology transfer that increases local firm profits or for (2) wage premiums that benefit workers.
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  The financing and technology decisions of SMEs: Finance as a determinant of investment

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1999

  Surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the financing of investment in order to lay the foundation for subsequent analysis of technology investments by Southern European SMEs. By adapting a variety of approaches to suit this purpose, a number of findings for policy are reached.
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  The poor and their money: an essay about financial services for poor people

  Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester, 1999

  Non-academic paper aimed at microfinance practitioners and their backers. Intended to stimulate them to invent and test financial products for the poor and to develop suitable institutions to deliver the productsLooks at how poor people in developing countries manage their money.
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  The Performance and Sustainability of Two Philippine Microfinance Institutions

  Banking with the Poor Network, 1998

  Reviews the performance and sustainability of two Philippine NGOs that have not reached the scale of the more renowned models. These are the Alalay sa Kaunlaran sa Gitnang Luzon, Inc (ASKI) and the Kabalikat para sa Maunlad na Buhay, Inc (KMBI).
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  Making Adjustment Work for the Poor

  Overseas Development Institute, 1999

  Many developing countries are engaged in structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) sponsored by the IMF and World Bank.
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  Grameen Dialogue

  Grameen Trust, 1999

  Newsletter published by the Grameen Trust
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  Foreign direct investment in Africa: Performance and Potential

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 1999

  African countries have made considerable efforts over the past decade to improve their investment climate. They have liberalized their investment regulations and have offered incentives to foreign investors. More importantly, the economic performance of the region had substantially improved from the mid-1990s. However, the expected surge of FDI into Africa as a whole has not occurred.
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  Technology Transfer and Spillovers? Does Local Participation with Multinationals Matter?

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1998

  Examines the effects on technology transfer and spillovers deriving from ownership sharing of foreign multinational affiliates.Trys to answer two questions, using unpublished Indonesian micro data: do establishments with minority and majority ownership differ in terms of productivity levels?
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  The Effects of Direct Foreign Investment on Local Communities [in the USA]

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1999

  The large increase in direct foreign investment (DFI) into the United States in the late 1980s has generated considerable research on why these flows occurred and where these foreign firms located. However, very little has been done to evaluate the impact these foreign firms have on the local communities in which they locate.

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