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Many of the present difficulties of the world economy have been blamed on the two oil-price explosions of the 1970s. Professor Chichilnisky shows that, at least in the case of the oil-importing developing countries, the negative effects have been overestimated. In fact, in some respects the oil...
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Since the summer of 1982 the banking community has been faced with an international debt crisis of unprecedented dimensions. The debt rescheduling agreements that have been negotiated since then involve sums totalling no less than $ 100 billion. However, they give the international financial...
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The effects of direct investments and multinational corporations remain a highly contentious issue. The author traces here the reasons for the large number of diverging statements and comments on this issue and considers what political conclusions should be drawn from this wide variety of views.
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From its beginnings on the DEG (German Development Company) has always been working with two aims in mind. Development policy provided one and the external economic relations of the Federal Republic of Germany the other. It is contributing to economic development by supporting investments by...
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The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has been officially in business since January 19, 1971. Its major … purpose is to reorganise and widen the scope of programmes for the promotion of US private investment overseas in developing …
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There is a commonly held notion that higher fixed investment allows one to have it all — a higher labour productivity … accumulation has led to a decline in total capital productivity with resulting pressures on capital returns - which have been … largely offset by keeping wage growth subdued. This suggests that more policy focus should instead be placed on investment …
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The United Nations Committee for Development Planning (CDP) in its annual report 1992 will address the relationships between poverty, environment and development, as a kind of input to the discussion that led to and will ensue from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development...
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