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    Growth may be good for the poor: but are IMF and World Bank policies good for growth?: a closer look at the World Bank's most recent defense of its policies

    Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, 2000
    The WB paper claims that "growth generally does benefit the poor and that anyone who cares about the poor should favor the growth-enhancing polices of good rule of law, fiscal discipline, and openness to international trade." This CEPR’s report claims that the data from the paper do not support this conclusion.Conclusions include:economic growth in the developing world, excludin
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    Aid coordination and aid effectiveness

    Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway, 1999
    Both donors and aid recipients are spending considerable resources on aid coordination activities. The trend seems to be towards an increase in these levels, yet relatively little is known about the outcomes and impact of these efforts. In particular, there does not seem to be much of a strategy in place for how to improve the effectiveness of the aid coordination resources them-selves.
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    The impact of transparency on foreign direct investment

    Economic Research and Analysis Division, World Trade Organisation (WTO), 1999
    Non-transparency is a term given in this paper to a set of government policies that increase the risk and uncertainty faced by economic actors foreign investors.
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    Aid dependence and the quality of governance: a cross-country empirical analysis

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    Good governance (in the form of institutions that establish predictable, impartial, and consistently enforced rules for investors) is crucial for the sustained and rapid growth of per capita incomes in poor countries.
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    Reforming the international financial architecture: the East Asian view

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    Despite the measures that have already been put in place to strengthen the international financial architecture in the wake of the Asian financial crisis, still much remain to be done.
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    Oil price increase [in the Philippines]: can something be done to minimize its adverse effects?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2000
    In 2000, petroleum products had gone through several rounds of price increases in the Philippines.
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    African Journals Online (AJOL)

    International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, 1999
    The International Network for Scientific Publications (INASP) launched AJOL in 1998 with only 14 journals. By January 2004 it had over 175 African journals covering most subject areas. Journals included in AJOL are scholarly in content with peer reviewed articles, and publish a mixture of pure and applied research as well as review papers.
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    Asian Development Outlook 2000

    Asian Development Bank Institute, 2000
    Looks at the social challenge facing developing Asia as it enters the new millennium: improving the quality of life of the hundreds of millions who still live in abject poverty. It reviews the record of social progress so far, and analyzes the various dimensions of the social challenge and the policies necessary to confront it.
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    Foreign direct investment and the opening up of China's economy

    Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales, 2000
    China’s opening up policy has aimed at promoting exports, while protecting the domestic market. This was achieved through a dualistic trade regime which has granted tariff exemptions on imports of intermediate by export-oriented industries, and through a selective policy which has channelled FDI into manufacturing production targeted for exports or for import substitution.
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    How does public spending affect growth and poverty? The experience of China

    Global Development Network, 2000
    This paper uses province-level data for 1978-1997, to develop a simultaneous equation model to estimate the direct and indirect effects of different types of government expenditure on rural poverty and productivity growth in rural China.

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