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    World Economic and Social Survey 2005: financing for development

    UN, 2005
    The World Economic and Social Survey 2005 provides a comprehensive review of the wide-ranging challenges addressed in the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
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    The GATS, South African local governments and water services

    Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2005
    This briefing paper provides background information on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) agreement.
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    Household inequality, welfare, and the setting of trade policy

    Institute for International Integration Studies, Ireland, 2005
    This article analyses general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income.
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    Tilting the world towards Africa

    Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2005
    In the light of the make Poverty History Campaign and the run up to the G8 Summit in July 2005, this paper compiles a number of arguments, ideas and statements related to African development.The main points it makes are:Make Poverty History has understandably concentrated on the needs of developing countries rather than their shortcomings Make Poverty History is providing a real and
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    The perversity of preferences: GSP and developing country trade policies, 1976-2000

    World Bank, 2005
    The aim of this paper is to contribute to the ongoing debate on ways to integrate the developing countries into the world trading system and to lower their trade barriers.
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    The impact of trade liberalisation on the informal sector in Brazil

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2005
    This paper assesses whether or not the trade liberalisation process in Brazil had any effect on both the reduction in the wage differential between formal and informal workers and the fall in the proportion of formal workers.
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    General equilibrium dynamics of external shocks and policy changes in Chile

    Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2004
    This paper explores Chile’s macroeconomic dynamics with the help of a general equilibrium model parameterized for the Chilean economy where the economy’s short-term equilibrium depends on the current and anticipated future paths of policy and external variables.The model introduces realistic features—such as short-run wage rigidities and a group of myopic agents—that generate deviations from th
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    Response to external and inflation shocks in a small open economy

    Banco Central de Chile / Central Bank of Chile, 2004
    The reliance on explicit forward-looking expectations in monetary policy resulted in forward-looking design. Given the lags between policy decisions and their effect on the real economy, it is necessary to forecast values in the right horizon.
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    The role of property rights protection on the effects of free trade agreements on foreign direct investment

    Global Development Network, 2003
    Globalization has been associated with an increasing number of free trade agreements focusing mainly on increasing FDI flows to emerging markets.The author argues that international agreements have a differentiated effect on FDI depending on the definition of property rights in the receiving country.
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    Impact of government policies and investment agreements on FDI inflows to developing countries: an empirical evidence

    Global Development Network, 2003
    The last two decades have witnessed an extensive growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to developing countries. This has been accompanied by an increase in competition amongst the developing countries to attract FDI, resulting in a rise in investment incentives offered by the host governments and removal of restrictions on operations of foreign firms in their countries.

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