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The least developed countries 2000 report: aid, private capital flows and external debt: the challenge of financing development in the LDC
United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2000This Report briefly reviews economic growth and social trends in the 1990s. But it focuses in particular on the question of financing development in the least developed countries.DocumentFDI in Least Developed Countries at a glance
United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2001This paper is divided into two parts. The first depicts recent trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) to LDCs and changes that have taken place in relevant areas of the regulatory legal framework. The second part presents country profiles of each of the 49 LDCs to enable the reader – at a glance – to get a general picture of the role of FDI in these countries.DocumentSavings, investment and growth in South Asia
South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes, 2000Report of a study analysing the performance of the South Asian countries regarding savings and investment rates in comparison with East Asia.Econometric analysis shows that the main factors behind the lower rates of savings in South Asia are:a less rapid decline in the age dependency ratio (which has remained virtually stagnant in Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh), while falling dramatDocumentThe Mexican Peso Crisis? How Much Did We Know? When Did We Know It?
National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1997The Mexican crisis of 1994 raised throughout the world a number of questions about the sustainability -- and even the merits -- of the market oriented reform process in Latin America and other regions. Understanding how events unfolded in Mexico during the early 1990s continues to be fundamentally important to assess the mechanics of currency crises.DocumentBenchmarking Knowledge-based Economies: OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 1999
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999Examines the knowledge-based economy, the challenge of globalisation, and economic performance and competitiveness of OECD countries under twelve main headings.DocumentThe progress of policy reform and variations in performance at the sub-national level in India
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999The reform process in India has so far mainly concentrated at the central level. India has yet to free up its state governments sufficiently so that they can add much greater dynamism to the reforms.DocumentEliminating world poverty: making globalisation work for the poor
DFID White Paper on Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor, 2000While progress has been made over the years in development, many challenges yet remain in order to make globalisation work for the poor.DocumentAfricans query World Bank, IMF governance mantra
Bretton Woods Project, 2001This article discusses the recent trip of President James Wolfensohn and IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler to Mali and Tanzania to meet 22 African leaders in February. The theme of their visit was discussions concerning good governance.Ironically, the efforts to listen to civil society groups directly were minimal.DocumentHealth and intellectual property rights
World Health Organization, 2001Paper expresses concern that the TRIPS agreement was negotiated with little or no participation from public health authorities, and that WTO member countries are now bound to grant patents for pharmaceutical products.The paper asserts that is this respect TRIPS has caused special problems for developing countries:they are often excluded from the benefits of protection for inventions beDocumentFiscal decentralization and governance: a cross-country analysis
International Monetary Fund, 2001Based on cross-country data for up to 78 countries, this paper shows that fiscal decentralization (the assignment of expenditure and revenue mobilisation functions to subnational levels of government) is associated with various indicators of governance, such as corruption, rule of law, and government effectiveness.Pages
