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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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  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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  Distribution services: India and the GATS 2000 Negotiations

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2002

  This study examines India’s opportunities and constraints to trade in distribution services in the context of the ongoing GATS (General Agreement on trade in Services) 2000 negotiations.India is a small player in the global market for distribution services.
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  What has China accomplished in its first year of WTO membership?

  Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2002

  The role of China has become more and more prominent in the last two decades: its export rose rapidly and its economic growth increased remarkably. On the 11th December 2001 China gained the WTO membership.This paper summarises China's WTO commitments and it attempts to establish its accomplishments in its first year of WTO membership.
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  Liberalisation, multinational enterprises and export performance: evidence from Indian manufacturing.

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2001

  This paper tests two hypotheses.
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  Foreign direct investment and the opening up of China's economy

  Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales, 2000

  China’s opening up policy has aimed at promoting exports, while protecting the domestic market. This was achieved through a dualistic trade regime which has granted tariff exemptions on imports of intermediate by export-oriented industries, and through a selective policy which has channelled FDI into manufacturing production targeted for exports or for import substitution.
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  Intellectual property rights and foreign direct investment

  Centre for International Economic Studies, School of Economics of the University of Adelaide, 2000

  This paper reviews the theory and evidence on how intellectual property rights may influence decisions on FDI and technology transfers.The message is that, while there are indications that strengthening IPRs can be an effective incentive for inward FDI, it is only a component of a broader set of factors.
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  WTO: Understanding the Development Angle [Trade and Development Background Briefings]

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  Series of 10 short background papers, each on a different aspect of the WTO agenda and describing how developing countries may be affected by different outcomes, and what preparations they need to make to participate effectively. Developing countries have joined the WTO in large numbers, in the expectation that its objectives of rule-based liberal trade will foster development.

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