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  Asset bubbles, Leverage and ‘Lifeboats’: Elements of the East Asian crisis

  Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of Warwick, 1998

  Collapsing credit markets have been blamed for the depth and persistence of the Great Depression in the USA. Could similar mechanisms have played a role in ending the East Asian economic miracle - and in creating fragility in global financial markets?
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  Economic Growth and Human Development

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1998

  Explores the links between economic growth and human development, identifying two chains, one from economic growth to human development, and the other, conversely, from human development to economic growth. The various links in each chain are explored, together with a review of some existing empirical material on their importance.
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  Africa's export structure in a comparative perspective

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998

  Africa's exports are concentrated on primary products, mainly unprocessed, in sharp contrast to the exports of East Asia, which consist predominantly of manufactures.
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  The East Asian Financial Crises: An Analytical Survey

  Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales, Madrid, 1998

  The East Asian financial crises, which erupted in mid-1997, were unanimously unpredicted. They also represent a new kind of crises, as they do not seem to conform to the so-called first-generation and second-generation literature on currency crises.
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  Evaluation of Stakeholder Impacts in Cost-Benefit Analysis

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998

  Expands the scope of the analyses of both public and private investment projects beyond the traditional criteria of the financial and economic net present value of an investment.
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  Strengthening India's Strategy for Economic Growth

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998

  Suggests a three-pronged approach to an enhanced growth strategy for India. The first prong is export-led growth. Here the lessons of China are particularly instructive, since China achieved in the past fifteen years the kind of export-led growth that India could have achieved, but failed to do so, because of poor public policies.
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  The External Debt Problem in Central America: Honduras, Nicaragua, and the HIPC Initiative

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998

  Reviews the foreign debt burden in Central America with special emphasis on Honduras and Nicaragua, which have a large debt overhang. Several indicators suggest that this foreign debt seriously impedes economic growth in both nations.
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  Promoting Better Logging Practices in Tropical Forests: A Simulation Analysis of Alternative Regulations

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998

  Suggestions to promote better logging practices in tropical forests include longer concession agreements, renewability provisions, and the use of performance bonds. Tests the empirical significance of these recommendations by using a simulation model developed with an unusually large data set from a lowland tropical rain forest in Peninsular Malaysia.
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  Schooling Quality in a Cross Section of Countries

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1998

  Investigates the determinants of educational quality in a newly-constructed panel data set that includes output and input measures for a broad number of countries. The results show that family inputs and school resources are closely related to school outcomes, as measured by internationally comparable test scores, repetition rates, and drop-out rates.
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  Globalisation and liberalisation: Implications for poverty, distribution and inequality

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 1997

  Globalisation - or, more accurately, the deepening of economic integration between countries - has contributed enormously to the creation of wealth in some developing countries. The average income gap between south-east Asia and the industrialised world is continuing to narrow, albeit from extremely wide levels, with export growth driving economic expansion.

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