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  The currency premium and local-currency denominated debt costs in South Africa

  OECD Development Centre, 2004

  This paper aims at identifying the determinants of South African currency premia, which usually form an important element of debt cost in developing countries, in order to assess the scope of South African economic policies for narrowing the spread on local-currency denominated debt.The paper argues that South Africa is one among very few emerging economies able to borrow long-term domestically
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  Realignment of debt service obligations and ability to pay in concessional lending: feasibility and modalities

  HIPC Progress to Date, World Bank, 2003

  This paper studies schemes which have the potential to increase the flexibility of heavily indebted primary producing countries in meeting their debt service obligations by making debt service repayments contingent on the world prices of the commodities they export.
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  Policy (in) coherence in European Union support to developing countries: a three country case study

  ActionAid International, 2003

  What is the impact of a range of EU policies on poor people in Bangladesh, Brazil and Kenya? This paper examines key policy areas (including trade, aid, agricultural policies and support to Foreign Direct Investment) to assess the coherence of EU policy in supporting development.
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  Level playing field? Making world trade work for all

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The poorest countries are small players in world trade. The combined exports of the 48 least developed countries (LDCs) accounted for only 0.35 per cent of world trade in 1995. Can trade agreements be made to work better for LDCs? Can technical advice improve the negotiating capacity of LDCs?
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  Privatisation and indigenous ownership: evidence from Africa

  Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2002

  This paper focuses on the potential for the Zambian government to use privatisation as a means to promote indigenisation. It provides a discussion of privatisation and presents a typology of the measures that can be used to promote indigenisation.
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  What NEPAD implies for African policy makers

  United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance, 2002

  This paper explores the implications of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) for African policy makers.Drawing on the content of the NEPAD document, the paper asserts that finance and economic development framework will be critical in ensuring the successful implementation of NEPAD, because sound economic policy-making and execution are preconditions for the renewal of Africa.
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  Ranking the rich: the first annual CGD/FP commitment to development index

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2003

  Foreign Policy and the Center for Global Development have developed a new ranking system that grades the efforts of the 21 richest nations to assist the development of poorer nations.
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  Alternative paths to prosperity: economic integration among Arab countries

  Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), Egypt, 2003

  This paper assesses trade liberalization strategies for achieving economic prosperity in Tunisia and Egypt.
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  Chasing shadows: re-imagining finance for development

  Jubilee Research, 2002

  Starting from the premise that finance is not about money, but about the relationships among people, states, markets and natural environment, this report provides three key-features so that finance can become a “real” tool for development.The paper warns that:in order to achieve the objectives of global security and meeting basic human development needs, the imbalance between free marke
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  Balancing the other budget: proposal for solving the greater debt crisis

  New Economics Foundation, 2002

  Despite the pledge of support by industrialised countries, developing countries are still paying billion of dollars to their creditors and the debt of the South to the North is increasing more and more rather than decreasing. On the other hand, a different type of debt is becoming increasingly worrying.

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