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    Globalization and openness: lessons from the recent crisis in Southeast Asia

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
    This paper explores the 1997-98 economic and financial crisis in Southeast Asia. It looks particularly at the ASEAN economies in a globalized context, the ASEAN experience of liberalization and the impact of the crisis.
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    MIGA in Africa

    Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, 2005
    The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency is part of the World Bank Group, mitigating political risks to investments through:GuaranteesCurrency inconvertibility and transfer restrictionsExpropriationWar and civil disturbanceBreach of contractDispute mediation servicesMIGA also provides technical assistance to governments and online information on investment o
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    Strengthening Capacities in Developing Countries to Develop Their Environmental Services Sector

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 1998
    Efforts to strengthen capacities in the environmental services sector in developing countries are aimed primarily at addressing and eventually solving environmental problems. They can also result in developing countries' ability to become international providers in this field.
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    Trade Flow and Foreign Direct Investment in APEC Region (Okuda / IDE)

    APEC Study Centre, 1999
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    Legislative frameworks used to foster petroleum development

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Identifies and explains the essential elements of legislative frameworks that have attracted foreign direct investment into the petroleum sector and hence fostered development of petroleum resources in host states.The main purpose of a legislative framework for petroleum development is to provide the basic context for, and the rules governing, petroleum operations in the host country; to regula
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    Trade reform design as a signal to foreign investors : lessons for economies in transition

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    The design of trade policy reform can encourage or discourage foreign direct investment by revealing the government's commitment to protect the interests of foreign investors. The optimal policy is analyzed under four scenarios.
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    The Emerging Legal Framework for Private Sector Development in Viet Nam's Transitional Economy

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    Private (especially foreign) investors find Viet Nam's legal framework the most serious impediment to investment. Policy changes to reverse the former command system may be enough to initiate the transition.
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    The Uruguay Round and South Asia : an overview of the impact and opportunities

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    South Asia remains less liberal in trade policy than East Asia, including China. The Uruguay Round's most dramatic effect on South Asia will be the removal of non tariff barriers on the region's exports to the rest of the world.
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    The surge in capital inflows to developing countries : prospects and policy response

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Foreign interest rates have been the "push" factor driving capital inflows and determining their magnitude, but country creditworthiness has influenced the timing and geographic destination of the new capital flows.
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    Indonesia : labor market policies and international competitiveness

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Indonesia's labor market in the 1990s is characterized by rising labor costs, reduced worker productivity, and increasing industrial unrest. The main problem is generous, centrally mandated, but unenforceable worker benefits.

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