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  How does trade openness influence budget deficits in developing countries?

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  This working paper analyses the effects of trade openness on budget balances by distinguishing the effects of natural openness from those of trade-policy induced openness.
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  Doing business with the Euro: risks and opportunities

  RAND Corporation, 2005

  This paper reports on a conference on the risks, challenges, and opportunities of doing business with the euro in the near and more distant future.
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  Growth and trade horizons for Asia: long-term forecasts for regional integration

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2005

  With the emergence of People’s Republic of China (PRC) and India, the economic landscape of Asia and its relation to the global economy have been changed. Against this background, this paper present forecasts for Asian expansion until 2025. It explores a scenario of shifting patterns of regional specialization and their consequences for growth and structural change in the Asian economies.
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  Down the plughole: why bringing water into WTO services negotiations would unleash a development disaster

  ActionAid International, 2005

  Poor countries are under intense pressure in the World Trade Organization's GATS negotiations to open their service markets and "progressively liberalise" key sectors – such as water delivery – to foreign corporations.
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  Opening up trade in services: crucial for economic growth

  OECD Development Centre, 2005

  This paper argues that an efficient services sector is crucial for the overall economy.
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  The roles of the IMF, the World Bank, and the WTO in liberalization and privatization of the water services sector

  Citizens Network on Essential Services, USA, 2005

  In recent years there has been growing pressure from the World Bank and other major International Financial Institutions on governments todownsize, decentralise, and privatise (or “contract out”) their functions.
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  Water and the GATS: mapping the trade – development interface

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  In the context of efforts to liberalise the market in services according to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) principles, this paper assesses the consequences for the water market.
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  Reality check: the distributional impact of privatization in developing countries

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2005

  This report looks at the privatisation of state-owned enterprises as a market reform. The volume brings together a comprehensive set of country studies on the effects of privatisation on people.
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  Building human capital in an aging Mexico

  Global Aging Initiative Program, 2005

  United Nations' figures project that in 2050 one in five Mexicans will be aged over 65 and there will be equal numbers of children and elderly.
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  Reaction function of the bank of Ghana: a dynamic approach

  University of Cape Coast, Ghana, 2002

  The economy of Ghana is highly dependent on exports as well as imports. It has been observed that the Bank of Ghana has succeeded in reducing the gap between official and parallel exchange rates and partially succeeded in correcting the over/under valuation of the nominal exchange rate by implementing various exchange rate regimesThe present paper looks at the bank of Ghana’s reaction functions.

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