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    Trade and Development Report 2004

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004
    The key message of this years Trade and Development Report, is that strategies based on the 'openness model' are not sufficient to lead to development through integration into the world economy.
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    Towards an East Asian free trade area

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2003
    This paper discusses the process and effects of East Asian countries embracing free trade agreements (FTA), with the removal of tariffs and non-tariff barriers on international trade between member countries.
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    International investment perspectives

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004
    The articles in the report cover a wide range of investment topics, the highlights of which include:foreign direct investment (FDI) in the OCED continued to fall in 2003. This appears to be due to the sluggish macroeconomic performance of many of the larger OCED economies, not least Europe.
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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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    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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    International investment treaties and developing countries

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
    This briefing (9th in the IDS Trade and Development Background Briefings) analyses the need for a multilateral regulation of investment and the prospects that such an agreement has to take place within the framework of the WTO.Claims include:over the past ten years, foreign direct investment (FDI) to developing countries has increased five-foldthe increasing globalisation of capital
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    Trade in services

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999
    This briefing (7th in the IDS Trade and Development Background Briefings) analyses the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and explores its consequences for developing countries.
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    Lessons from NAFTA for Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries: a summary of research findings

    Latin America and the Caribbean Region, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2003
    This report attempts to draw lessons from the participation of Mexico in NAFTA in order to provide guidance to other Latin American countries on what they can expect from this type of trade agreement, and to identify policies that can help them derive the maximum benefits from trade integration in the Americas.Findings include:without NAFTA, global exports would have been roughly 25% lo
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    Tariff and FDI liberalization: what to expect from China's entry into the WTO?

    Global Development Network, 2002
    What features determine the final outcome of the liberalisation process? Who gains and loses with the liberalisation of FDI?
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    Social impact of international trade and multinational corporations activities on the people of the Niger Delta of Nigeria: a comparative analysis by gender, generation and socio-cultural differences

    Global Development Network, 2002
    For nearly three decades, petroleum production and consumption has probably brought out both the best and worst of modern civilization in Nigeria.

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