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This report describes the complex and changing interrelationship between trade, domestic investment and foreign direct … investment (FDI) and provides examples of good practices in trade policymaking that create a healthy investment climate in … developing countries. A two-by-two taxonomy is used to analyse the impact of policies affecting imports and exports in both host …
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(MTS) under the World Trade Organization (WTO). Focus is given to examining the narrowing range of policy options … permissible under international trade and finance agreements, and the adverse effects this can have on countries in earlier stages … of economic development. These effects are reviewed with the finding that the playing field resulting from international …
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The international goal for rich countries to devote 0.7% of their national income to development assistance has become … with a meaningful model of how aid affects development. Although aid certainly has positive impacts in many circumstances …
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Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a … of these, the Millennium Development Goals, call for universal primary schooling and full gender parity by 2015. This … country-specific, historically-grounded goals. But a country's broader development strategy outside the classroom matters much …
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Governments face many constraints when making taxation decisions, including revenue needs, political objectives, and administrative capacities. Tariffs have an appealing combination of features for politicians: they provide a stream of revenue that is easy to collect, as well as satisfying...
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sustainable development. Looming environmental crises have served as a prime motivating force for reevaluating fundamental … begun to reshape economics. The broadest conception of sustainability is found if we understand sustainable development to … mean Socially And Environmentally Just And Sustainable development - "SAEJAS development". Throughout the paper we will see …
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Vietnam.s development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the … its domestic market only slowly while encouraging export growth. …
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Factor-endowment based trade with the leading economy helps to explain the differing development performances of the …-endowment based trade and economic ties with the secondary advanced economy (first the U.S. and then Japan) played important roles in …
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. In doing so, it considers the main channels of transmission, to focus on international trade, investment, finance and …
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