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    Foreign direct investment: flows, volatility and growth in developing countries

    Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2001
    The authors suggest that it is not the volatility of FDI per se that retards growth but that such volatility captures the growth-retarding effects of unobserved variables.
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    The Tobin Tax: how to make it real

    Network Institute for Global Democratization, Helsinki, 2001
    This Report develops a new approach to making the Tobin tax real. This could be realised in two stages:In its first phase, the system would consist of the euro-EU and a group of other countries EU.
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    Remarks presented to the session on "strategies for success" workshop on global taxes for global priorities

    Global Policy Forum, 2001
    This short article investigates the Tobin Tax (TT). This article deals with two essential points for the operationalisation of the Tobin Tax (TT).
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    Interpreting real exchange rate movements in transition economies

    International Monetary Fund, 2001
    This paper investigates why several transition economies have experienced strong real exchange rate appreciations.
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    Governing multinationals: the role of foreign direct liability

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2001
    This Briefing Paper outlines the implications of one way of enforcing corporate environmental, social and human rights standards across borders: ‘foreign direct liability’.The briefing paper concentrates on:globalization and the new challenge of corporate governancethe new foreign direct liability agendaan investigation into the reasons why foreign direct liability is happening
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    The Tobin Tax: a new phase in the politics of globalisation?

    Global Solidarity, 2001
    This article calls for the creation of a Tobin tax (TT). This is an attractive proposition as the TT has the potential to give rise to new political constellations.
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    Negative alchemy?: corruption, compositions of capital flows, and currency crises

    Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2001
    This article discusses the relationship between crony capitalism and self-fulfilling expectations by international creditors.
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    Getting traction?: sustainable development and the governance of investment

    Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, 2000
    This paper explores new approaches to the global governance of investment which could channel investment, especially foreign direct investment (FDI), towards more socially just and ecologically sustainable development.Part I outlines three sources of dysfunctionality in the current investment regime and argues that global norms are needed to get environmental standards out of being "stuck in
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    Foreign investment in developing countries: does it crowd in domestic investment?

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2000
    This paper assesses the extent to which foreign direct investment in developing countries crowds in or crowds out domestic investment. Paper develops a theoretical model of investment that includes an FDI variable and we proceed to test it with panel data for the period 1970–1996 and the two subperiods 1976–1985 and 1986–1996.
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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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