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  Indicators and analysis of vulnerability to currency crisis: synthesis report

  Thailand Development Research Institute, 2002

  Only a few years before the onset of the economic crisis in 1997, the East Asian miracle was a model put up for developing countries to follow, so could the East Asian economic crisis have been anticipated? The nature of the East Asian crisis pointed to indicators that could have been good early warning indicators that were not taken seriously enough before the crisis.
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  Some Recent Evidence: Why Foreign Direct Investment Flows to Low-Income Countries benefit the few

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Foreign direct investment (FDI) is viewed as a major stimulus to economic growth in developing countries. Its supposed value as a way of dealing with shortages of financial resources as well as shortfalls in technology and skills, has made it a centre of attention for reform-minded policymakers, especially in low-income countries.
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  Globalisation and employment: working for the poor?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Globalisation is one of the most controversial development issues of the day. ‘Globaphobes’ attribute most of the ills of the world to globalisation. The anti- globalisation movement has focused attention on the extent to which decisions affecting the lives of millions of the world’s poorest people are made in international fora – at which the poor have no voice.
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  Income distribution for development - more or less equal?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Despite the developmental progress of recent decades, developed and developing countries alike are experiencing widening income inequality. But how does income distribution affect economic growth? And to what extent does economic growth impact on income distribution?
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  The economics of gender inequality: towards gender responsive budgeting

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Are budgets and revenue systems as gender neutral as they may appear to be? Can gender be incorporated into economic governance? How can women and civil society organisations be more involved in preparing budgets, scrutinising expenditure and collecting and analysing macroeconomic data that is disaggregated by sex?
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  The sustainability of the current account deficit and external debt in Vietnam

  Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2001

  The objective of this study is to examine Vietnams current account deficit and external debt sustainability in the 1990s, and the period 2001-10.The study finds that: During 1989-99, the current account deficit and external debt of Vietnam were sustainable. In general, imports were substantially restrained in comparison with the levels it could have reached, except for the year 1996
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  The Emerging Legal Framework for Private Sector Development in Viet Nam's Transitional Economy

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Private (especially foreign) investors find Viet Nam's legal framework the most serious impediment to investment. Policy changes to reverse the former command system may be enough to initiate the transition.
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  The usefulness of private and public information for foreign investment decisions

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997

  Information on operating conditions based on direct experience in a country is likely to be the information most credibleto foreign investors. But for investors new to a country, information inferred from observing others investing in that country may bemore influential - and may lead to cascading investments in that country, as happened in China and Vietnam.
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  Reforming Vietnam's banking system: learning from Singapore's model

  East Asian Regional Network, Global Development Network, 2000

  This study investigates the reforms that are crucial if the Vietnamese domestic banking system is to face up to new challenges and opportunities.
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  Dollars, dialogue and development: an evaluation of Swedish programme aid

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999

  Programme aid - that is, import support, debt relief and budget support - has constituted a considerable part of Swedish aid in the 1990's. However, the volumes of programme aid have fallen both in relative and absolute terms during this same period. Few evaluations have assessed how different modalities of programme aid further economic growth and sustainable development.

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