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  Trade and financial development

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper explores the linkages between financial sector development in a country and its trade pattern. In particular the paper examines whether openness to trade affects a countries’ financial developmentIn order to do so, the paper builds a model in which each country's financial system is an endogenous outcome of entrepreneurs’ demand for external finance.
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  Trading accountability: business, trade and investment policy and sustainable development

  AccountAbility, 2004

  This report looks beneath the discussions on the overarching architecture of multilaterally negotiated trade rules, into the everyday trade and investment decisions, in order to get a better basis for determining how approaches to trade and investment policy can support sustainable development within competitive international markets.By exploring how the interaction of individual companies with
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  The OECD initiative on investment for development: a policy framework for investment: competition policy

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004

  This paper examines various ways in which competition policy can contribute to creating an environment that is attractive to domestic and foreign investors and that enhances development.In order to do so the paper outlines the relationship between competition policy and investment as well as between competition policy and investment.
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  Impacts of R&D, exports and FDI on productivity in Chinese manufacturing firms

  Lancaster University Management School, 2003

  This paper assesses the impacts of research and development (R&D), export and the presence of FDI on Chinese manufacturing productivity.
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  Leveraging the private sector for public health objectives: a briefing paper for DFID on technology transfer in the pharmaceuticals sector

  Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2004

  This HSRC study maps a variety of Technology Transfer (TT) experiences and analyses the motivations behind the enabling agreements. TT is defined as the dissemination of knowledge and expertise from developed country organisations to developing country organisations.
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  Trade and Development Report 2004

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004

  The key message of this years Trade and Development Report, is that strategies based on the 'openness model' are not sufficient to lead to development through integration into the world economy.
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  Economic Report on Africa 2004

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2004

  The Economic Report on Africa (ERA) 2004 examines general and regional statistics on economic growth in Africa and concludes that while African countries have marked significant economic growth, they are far from meeting their Millennium Development Goal targets. Additionally, they are not growing fast enough to eliminate poverty.
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  Fiscal policy and growth in Africa: fiscal federalism, decentralization and the incidence of taxation

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  The paper investigates the tax reforms undertaken in a sample of randomly selected five African countries, taken together, namely Egypt, Senegal, Gabon, Kenya and Zambia. Reflecting the government's greatly expanding role in the economy, total public sector expenditure increased rapidly over the last two decades. However, public sector revenue growth has not matched public expenditure growth.
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  World Economic Situation and Prospects 2004

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2004

  This paper argues that despite setbacks in world economic growth due to SARS and the prospect of war in Iraq, the world economy is making a comeback. The authors state that the strength of the current recovery is still heavily dependent on policy ensuring low interest rates and expansionary fiscal measures.
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  The political economics of import substitution industrialization

  Institute of Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile / Instituto de Economia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2003

  During 1950-1973, Chile adopted a policy of import substitution industrialisation (ISI), involving a closed economy (high tariff barriers, quotas and exchange controls) and a strong role for the state (high government expenditure, extensive regulations, and increasing numbers of state-owned firms).

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