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  Far from home: do foreign investors import higher standards of governance in transition economies?

  Social Science Research Network, 2002

  This paper argues that while a number of recent studies have shown that corruption inhibits foreign direct investment (FDI), comparatively little attention has been given to the behavior of those who have invested in corrupt countries.
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  Make trade fair for the Americas: agriculture, investment and intellectual property: three reasons to say no to the FTAA

  Oxfam, 2003

  This paper focuses on the plan to integrate Latin America and the Caribbean into the Free Trade Area of the Americas and stresses that some areas of the plan go further than the most worrisome WTO rules - as in the case of investment and intellectual property.
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  Global Development Finance 2003: striving for stability in development finance

  World Bank, 2003

  Annual review of recent trends in and prospects for financial flows to developing countries.
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  The composition of foreign direct investment and protection of intellectual property rights

  World Bank, 2002

  Looks at the impact of intellectual property protection on the composition of FDI inflows, using a unique firm-level data set from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The report finds that weak protection deters foreign investors in technology-intensive sectors that rely heavily on intellectual property rights.The results also indicate that a weak intellectual property regime encour
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  Supermarkets and farming in Latin America: pointing directions for elsewhere?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2002

  This paper identifies why supermarkets have grown so rapidly in Latin America, what the impacts on producers have been, and whether the pattern might be repeated in other regions.The policy conclusions are:Supermarkets occupy roughly 60% of the national retail sectors in Latin America, and around half this level of fresh fruit and vegetable productsFactors underpinning their growth
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  PPP strikes back: aggregation and the real exchange rate

  International Monetary Fund, 2003

  This paper presents the principal of absolute purchasing power parity (PPP) which states that real exchange rates should be constant and equal to one or, expressed in relative terms, changes in the real exchange rate should be arbitraged away.
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  Intellectual property rights, technology and economic development: experiences of Asian countries

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2003

  This paper critically reviews the literature on the role of intellectual property protection (IPP) regimes in economic development.
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  NEPAD and the African ‘resource gap’: a critical examination

  Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2002

  The ‘New Partnership for Africa’s Development’ (NEPAD) is the latest attempt by African leaders to formulate an initiative to boost development on the continent, but is it a feasible approach for the continent?
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  The Emperor’s new clothes: why rich countries want a WTO investment agreement

  Oxfam, 2003

  This paper argues that despite EU members and other rich countries failing to fulfil their obligations from previous WTO negotiations, they are nonetheless pressuring developing countries to accept new investment rules in the next Round that they do not need and cannot afford.
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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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