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    In between biodiversity conservation and Intellectual Property Rights: an analysis of the economic motives of TRIPs and the implementation of sui generis systems

    Genetic Engineering & Intellectual Property Rights Resource Center, 2000
    Paper disputes the assumption that access to genetic resources, foreign investment and technology transfer will in turn benefit developing countries, stimulate their participation in the world market and facilitate their development.Conclusions:implementation costs of TRIPs in developing countries are very high compared to the benefitsTRIPs disregards the moral values in deve
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    Structural Adjustment for the IMF: options for reforming the IMF's governance structure

    Bretton Woods Project, 2001
    This article outlines the various forces shaping change at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and recommends various changes within the IMF.The first force springs from pressure in increasing the IMF's surveillance function, giving it new responsibilities to monitor and advise governments on financial sector restructuring and enabling it to operate as a quasi-lender of last resort.The sec
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    Adjustment debate leaves World Bank behind

    Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network, 2000
    The article explores the activities of the Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Network (SAPRIN). The main role of the SAPRIN was to to legitimize a role for citizens in economic decisionmaking and to help them mobilize to play that role effectively.
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    Economists and power at the World Bank

    Development Information Update, 2000
    This article discusses some of the conflicts existing between the different economic approaches within multilateral organisations such as the World Bank (WB) and, to a lesser degree, the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The article explores the decisive schools of thought that play a central role in WB initiatives.
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    Financing corruption and repression: the case of Kenya and the IFIs

    Jubilee Research, 2001
    This article attempts to show that in Kenya the IMF’s Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRSP) is less a strategy for poverty reduction and civil society participation; more a strategy for providing security and guarantees for foreign investorsThe article indicates that:far from challenging the rule of Daniel Arap Moi, international creditors, through the IMF and World Bank, have helped to pr
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    How does privatization work?: ownership concentration and enterprise performance in Ukraine

    International Monetary Fund, 2001
    This paper concludes that:the effectiveness of mass privatisation methods that led to a dispersed post-privatisation ownership structure is questionable and suggests that privatization that grants signficant ownership stakes to single parties may have greater efficiency gains than privatization that disperses ownershipseveral years after privatisation ownership structures of individual
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    Inflation and financial depth

    International Monetary Fund, 2001
    This article investigates whether inflation impedes financial deepening. The authors investigate into the real effect of inflation on the basis that these effects derive from the consequences of inflation for financial market conditions.The authors propose that there is a nonlinear relationship betwen inflation and financial deepening.
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    Currency crises and the real economy: the role of banks

    International Monetary Fund, 2001
    The article indicates that:typically, analysis of currency crisis emphasise the trade-off between high interest rates and the political costs of devaluing. Usually the debate is framed in terms of a devaluation versus a recession. This is not necessarily valid in the presence of weak banking sector.
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    Securities transaction taxes and financial markets

    International Monetary Fund, 2001
    This article emphasises that transaction taxes have a very destructive impact on financial markets where the transformation of latent demands into realized transactions takes place.The article reflects on the transaction taxes on markets.
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    The fall and recovery of the Cuban economy in the 1990s: mirage or reality

    International Monetary Fund, 2001
    The collapse of the Cuban economy following the cessation of Soviet assistance gave way to a strong recovery in 1994-1996.The author proposes three possible explanations for this recovery:that it never took placethat it reflected a surge in productivity resulting from stabilisation and liberalisation in 1993 - 1994that it resulted from a favorable aggregate demand shockT

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