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  The WTO, the EU and the Arab world : trade policy priorities and pitfalls

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995

  A preference for gradual trade liberalization has led to partial and slow reform, lack of credibility, and a weak private sector supply response in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The creation of the World Trade Organization and the offer of the European Union to establish a Euro Mediterranean Economic Area could help make the strategy of gradual reform more credible.
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  Liquidity, banks, and markets : effects of financial development on banks and the maturity of financial claims

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996

  The amount of liquidity that banks offer depends on the degree of direct participation in financial markets --- that is, on the liquidity of financial markets. Conversely, banks influence the amount of liquidity offered by financial markets.Financial markets and financial institutions compete to provide investors with liquidity.
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  Adjusting to New Realities: MENA, The Uruguay Round, and the EU-Mediterranean Initiative

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  The MENA region, with the exception of the GCC economies, is lagging behind in trade liberalization. This delay has had a negative impact on production efficiency and consumer welfare and will become more costly given the increasing globalization and integration of the world economy. It is likely to reduce the region's attractiveness for foreign investment.
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  Private Sector Participation in the Water and Sanitation Sector

  Water Engineering and Development Centre, 1997

  This paper aims to provide an overview of the principles that should underlay private sector participation in the water and sanitation sub-sector to help inform DFID, together with other stakeholders, on the role and potential of Private Sector Participation (PSP) in its broadest sense and to provide suggestions on what approaches might be appropriate to DFID's programmes and those of others in lo
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  Cost Benefit Analysis of Private Sector Environmental Investments: A Case Study of the Kunda Cement Factory

  International Finance Corporation, 1999

  Considers the case of a cement plant in Estonia and tries to answer the question: how do the (private) costs of curbing pollution compare to the (social) benefits to the population? While it is often easy to estimate costs, it is exceedingly difficult to capture the benefits, especially in developing and transition countries.
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  Short - term stabilization versus long - term price stability : evaluating Namibia's membership of the Common Monetary Area

  Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1995

  It was found in this paper that (i) because of the high degree of openness of the Namibian economy and its small size, the use of nominal exchange rate as an instrument of adjustment will have limited effects; (ii) that the costs associated with the loss of monetary autonomy are small; and (iii) that there exists a wide range of instruments to address the effects of asymmetric shocks, irrespective
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  Technology Transfer and Spillovers? Does Local Participation with Multinationals Matter?

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1998

  Examines the effects on technology transfer and spillovers deriving from ownership sharing of foreign multinational affiliates.Trys to answer two questions, using unpublished Indonesian micro data: do establishments with minority and majority ownership differ in terms of productivity levels?
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  Impact Assessment of the PULSE microfinance programme in Lusaka, Zambia

  Centre for Development Studies, Swansea, 1998

  PULSE is a group-based microfinance programme that provides savings and loan facilities to people living in low income compounds of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. As one of the pioneers of microfinance in Zambia, high quality assessment of the impact of PULSE is particularly important.
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  Budgets as if people mattered: democratizing macroeconomic policies

  Poverty Elimination Programme, UNDP, 2000

  The concept of 'budgets as if people mattered' is inspired by a large number of initiatives that have emerged around the world during the last fifteen years to examine public budgets through a poverty or gender lens.
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  The World Bank and IMF initiate a new reform package

  Participation & Civic Engagement Group, World Bank, 2000

  The article critically examines the World Bank's and IMF's new approach to poverty alleviation and debt relief, as it is to be carried out via the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF).

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