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  Trade, inequality, and poverty: what do we know?: evidence from recent trade liberalization episodes in developing countries

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2004

  This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the relationship between trade liberalisation, inequality, and poverty based on the analysis of micro data from several developing countries that underwent significant trade reforms in recent years.The authors find a number of patterns that seem common across countries and trade liberalisation episodes, and may be informative as to how developing cou
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  Prospects for FDI flows, transnational corporation strategies and promotion policies: 2004–2007

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004

  This report presents the results of a survey of international foreign direct investment (FDI) location experts who work as consultants, advisers and/or analysts in the investment location decision-making processes of transnational corporations (TNCs).
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  Copenhagen Consensus: subsidies and trade barriers

  Copenhagen Consensus, 2004

  This paper argues that phasing out trade barriers and subsidies should be the highest priority among the opportunities assessed by the Copenhagen Consensus. It argues that this strategy would have a direct effect on poverty reduction, as well as indirect benefits across the full range of Copenhagen Consensus challenges.
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  Corporate responsibility and the future of the international trade and investment agendas

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003

  This paper argues that there are fundamental tensions between businesses’ lobbying on international trade and investment issues and their attempts to address environmental and social issues through a ‘voluntarist’ corporate responsibility (CR) agenda, as often efforts to liberalise international trade contribute to inequality and poverty, while the CR agenda attempts to ameliorate these same effec
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  Chasing the dragon: accounting for the under performance of India by comparison with China in attracting foreign direct investment

  Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 2003

  This paper seeks to explain why, although both China and India had similar levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the late 1970s, China now attracts far more FDI than India.The analysis focuses on the way in which national and sub-national governments have gone about the task of promoting inward foreign direct investment, and also considers how the governments of the two countries have fa
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  Education and the General Agreement on Trade in Services: what does the future hold?

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003

  This document reports on presentations and discussions from the Fifteenth CCEM Preliminary Meeting on Education and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
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  The least developed countries report 2004: linking international trade with policy reduction

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004

  This report examines the relationship between trade and poverty in the less developed countries.
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  Mainstreaming trade in national development strategies: an issues paper

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2004

  The aim of this paper is to summarise and review the mix of policy actions, both domestic and international, necessary to mainstream trade in national development strategies.
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  Reality and analysis: personal and technical reflections on the working lives of six women

  Poverty, inequality and development research at Cornell University, 2004

  A group of development analysts – researchers, activists, and practitioners - engaged in an unusual exercise in early 2004. They had a dialogue about labour market, trade and poverty issues, but they preceded the dialogue with exposure to the realities of the lives of six host women in Gujarat: Dohiben, Kalavatiben, Kamlaben, Kesarben, Leelaben and Ushaben.
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  Naomi Klein and the Anti-Globalization Movement

  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 2003

  This paper examines the writings of Naomi Klein, one of the leaders in the anti-globalization movement. The contents of her influential book No Logo are summarized and some problems with her analysis of globalisation are discussed.

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