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  Resisting corporate India

  Focus on the Global South, 2007

  It is predicted that India will be one of the economic powerhouses of the twenty-first century, with the current government focusing on the corporate sector. This collection of articles argues that progressive forces across India must unite in order to resist the current path of development focused on ‘corporate India.’
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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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  Mapping the trends and patterns of the metal and engineering sectors in Africa

  National Labour and Economic Development Institute, South Africa, 2006

  Africa’s metal industry faces a number of developmental challenges, including weak infrastructure, lack of adequate investments, skills shortage, political instability and an inequitable global market. This study explores the performance, trends and patterns of the metal and engineering sectors in Africa within their broader context.
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  Trade-finance linkages and gender: implications to Asian women

  International Gender and Trade Network, 2006

  Are linkages between trade and finance more theoretical than a reality, and what are the gender implications? This journal addresses some of these questions, with an emphasis on impacts for Asian women.
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  Real exchange rate and international reserves in the era of growing financial and trade integration

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006

  Volatility in the exchange rate can reduce growth for countries with relatively low levels of financial development. Exchange rates in developing country economies can be particularly vulnerable to economic shocks from rapid falls in the terms of trade (the price of a country’s exports relative to its imports) and from changes in short- and long-term flows of capital into the economy.
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  Identifying financial constraints under trade liberalisation: lessons from Kenya, Uganda and Ghana

  Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2006

  This paper explores the influence that financial sector deficits have had on a country's export performance under trade liberalisation.
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  Trade, FDI, and the organisation of firms

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2006

  This literature review examines new trends and developments in the theories of international trade and foreign direct investment..In particular it focuses on the need to model alternative forms of business involvement in foreign activities.The theoretical refinements identified have focused on the individual firm, studying its choices in response to its own characteristics, the nature of th
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  Down the plughole: why bringing water into WTO services negotiations would unleash a development disaster

  ActionAid International, 2005

  Poor countries are under intense pressure in the World Trade Organization's GATS negotiations to open their service markets and "progressively liberalise" key sectors – such as water delivery – to foreign corporations.
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  Reality check: the distributional impact of privatization in developing countries

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2005

  This report looks at the privatisation of state-owned enterprises as a market reform. The volume brings together a comprehensive set of country studies on the effects of privatisation on people.
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  Trade liberalisation, export orientation and employment in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico

  International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 2005

  This study describes the trade liberalisation process as well as the general patterns of trade and export performance of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and attempts to assess sectoral labour market impacts.

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