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  Risky business: how the World Bank’s insurance arm fails the poor and harms the environment

  Friends of the Earth, 2002

  This report provides basic information about the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)does, and assesses its record of supporting environmentally damaging, developmentally dubious projects. It gives an overview of MIGA’s current activities, membership, funding sources, recent growth, and role within the larger political risk insurance industry.
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  Responses to the challenges of globalisation: a study on the international monetary and financial system and on financing for development

  European Commission Directorate-General for Development, 2002

  Discusses the reform of the international monetary and financial architecture as a response to global financial crises and the issue of financing and promoting development as a means to reduce global inequality.
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  Openness, firms, and competition

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper examines the impact of greater foreign competition on domestic firms.
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  Globalization and workers in developing countries

  World Bank, 2001

  This article reviews academic literature concerned with globalisation.The article focuses on:the effects of openness to trade, foreign direct investment and financial crises on average wagesthe impact of exposure to world markets on the dispersion of wages by occupation, skill and genderthe pattern of job destruction and job creation associated with globalization.the impact
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  Patterns of trade and foreign direct investment in Africa: a simple test of the new trade theory with multinationals

  Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2000

  This study presents an empirical survey of the patterns of trade and FDI in Africa based on a sample of 28 countries and their transactions with the OECD countries.
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  Foreign direct investment and international agreements: a south perspective

  South Centre, 2001

  The case against an MAI style agreement is stronger now than when the original agreement was dismissed by the OECD.
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  Liberalisation, multinational enterprises and export performance: evidence from Indian manufacturing.

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2001

  This paper tests two hypotheses.
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  Globalization and openness: lessons from the recent crisis in Southeast Asia

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001

  This paper explores the 1997-98 economic and financial crisis in Southeast Asia. It looks particularly at the ASEAN economies in a globalized context, the ASEAN experience of liberalization and the impact of the crisis.
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  The Tax Treatment of Government Bonds

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  Governments in some developed and in many developing countries have introduced favorable tax treatment for interest on government bonds, in some cases by fully exempting this source of income from taxation.
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  Adjusting to New Realities: MENA, The Uruguay Round, and the EU-Mediterranean Initiative

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997

  The MENA region, with the exception of the GCC economies, is lagging behind in trade liberalization. This delay has had a negative impact on production efficiency and consumer welfare and will become more costly given the increasing globalization and integration of the world economy. It is likely to reduce the region's attractiveness for foreign investment.

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