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Trade can play a crucial role in the development of services sectors in Africa. Services offer new dynamic opportunities for exports, especially for land-locked countries, while opening up to imports of services and foreign direct investment is a key mechanism to increase competition and drive...
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This report addresses the question raised in its title - now that 18 interim Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) have been initialed and negotiations of full EPAs have been launched, what should African countries and regional EPA-groups do? Part two of the report analyzes the outcome of the...
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"In defiance of its unimpressive track in structural reforms and relatively low foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, Romanian exports have experienced surprisingly strong performance in both EU and non-EU markets since 2000 after a four-year period of flat growth. While the first phase of...
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The war in Ukraine is a human tragedy for the people of Ukraine, but its economic implications are global. This instant report focuses on the direct impact of the war on world trade and investment. It identifies five trade and investment channels through which countries will be affected by the...
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The forces unleashed by the Arab political awakening have the power to be transformational. One critical parameter of success will be whether the Arab political awakening is accompanied by a concurrent economic awakening. Economic integration through increased trade and foreign direct investment...
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The forces unleashed by the Arab political awakening have the power to be transformational. One critical parameter of success will be whether the Arab political awakening is accompanied by a concurrent economic awakening. Economic integration through increased trade and foreign direct investment...
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combines regional reviews and analyses with country level analyses of China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Second, it …
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"The objective of this paper is to address the main considerations for China of including financial services in its … preferential trade agreements. The paper briefly reviews China's financial liberalization process and the state of its domestic … financial system, discusses the main considerations of including financial services in China's preferential trade agreements …
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; 2) China may want to use the opportunity of these negotiations to: (a) further discipline its state-owned enterprises … more balanced and sustainable development and taking into account China's high reliance on trade, it may be increasingly in … China's interest to pro-actively engage its partners on environmental issues in its regional trade agreement (RTA …
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