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  Unlocking forest bonds: a high-level workshop on innovative finance for tropical forests

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2011

  This document is an outcome of a high-level workshop on innovative finance for tropical forests, specifically focusing on the development and introduction of forest bonds.
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  Policy update: nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) and carbon markets

  Ecofys, 2012

  Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and carbon markets are currently developing in parallel with increasing debate on how to link the two approaches. This paper explores the role carbon markets may play for NAMAs and the key issues around the compatibility of the two concepts.
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  The effect of external conditions on growth in Latin America

  International Monetary Fund, 2007

  This paper expolores the sensitivity of Latin American GDP growth to external developments using data from 1994 to 2006 on key external and Latin American variables. The paper finds that Latin American growth is robust to moderate declines in commodity prices and U.S.
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  World Investment Report 2005: transnational corporations and the internationalisation of R&D

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005

  World Investment Report 2005 (WIR05) presents the latest trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) and explores the internationalisation of research and development (R&D) by transnational corporations (TNCs) along with the development implications of this phenomenon.Part one highlights recent global and regional trends in FDI and international production by TNCs:global FDI flows resumed
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  Public debt in developing countries: has the market-based model worked?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2005

  This paper examines why significant levels of public debt and external finance are more likely to have enhanced macroeconomic vulnerability than economic growth in developing countries.
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  Will China eat our lunch or take us out to dinner? Simulating the transition paths of the U.S., EU, Japan and China

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2005

  People in the developed world are ageing, and economic projections have shown how this demographic is likely to lead to capital shortage, reducing real wages per unit of human capital in order to compensate for benefit-related tax hikes. This paper posits that adding China to the model dramatically alters this prediction.
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  Global aging and fiscal policy with international labor mobility: a political economy perspective

  International Monetary Fund, 2005

  This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. It looks at links between migration, aging, the economy and politics in sending countries.
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  Which policies can reduce the cost of capital in Southern Africa?

  OECD Development Centre, 2004

  This policy brief discusses policies to reduce the cost of capital in Southern African countries, which has been extremely high in recent years and has subsequently presented a major strain on the Southern African economies.The brief finds that lowering interest rates and, thus, the cost of borrowing in the rand zone (Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland and South Africa) is a priority to promote invest
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  The price of inconvertible deposits: the stock market boom during the Argentine crisis

  World Bank, 2003

  This paper analyses the boom in the stock market during the Argentine crisis. It points to a new set of literature that attributes this development to a boom in stocks of companies with American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) that may have been used as a channel for capital outflows.
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  Bilateral investment treaties and development policy-making

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004

  This paper examines the impacts of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on development-oriented policy-making.

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