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What can other developing countries learn from Sri Lanka on achieving good health at low cost? While its well-organized medical and maternal-child health services have been documented elsewhere, this paper fills a gap in documenting how it organizes services to reduce the population's exposure...
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International negotiations on climate change have been dogged by mutual recriminations between rich and poor countries … industrialized and developing countries. To overcome these "narrative," "adding-up," and "new world" problems, respectively, this …
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place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …-in applied levels of protection and pre-committing to reform of policies affecting foreign direct investment and international … least lay the basis for a forward-looking program of international cooperation along the proposed lines …
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Although water variability has already been observed across river basins, climate change is predicted to increase variability. Such environmental changes may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus. Increased...
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as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power … along the value chain) also affect supply. This paper briefly reviews a number of factors that may distort international … absence of policy -- generate international spillovers that call for the negotiation of international policy disciplines …
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International mutual funds are one of the main channels for capital flows to emerging economies. Although mutual funds … strategies. The authors provide an overview of mutual fund activity in emerging markets. First, they describe international … than domestic U.S. funds and world funds. When investigating abroad, U.S. mutual funds invest more in equity than in bonds …
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Special economic zones can be an effective instrument to promote industrialization if implemented properly in the right context. In China, starting in the 1980s, special economic zones were used as a testing ground for the country's transition from a planned to a market economy, and they are a...
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South Asian countries, facing challenges in efficiently meeting growing electricity demand, can benefit from increased cross-border electricity cooperation and trade by harnessing complementarities in electricity demand patterns, diversity in resource endowments for power generation, and gains...
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Like many other developing countries, South Asian nations have been experiencing increased foreign direct investment inflows over the past decade as developing countries get a larger share of cross-border investments that were once sent to developed countries. Nonetheless, South Asia's inflows...
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low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage in negotiations with the rest of the world …, international and regional negotiation costs, number of issues negotiated, and accession rule to the bloc determine its size and … welfare impact; and b) examines the impact of international migration as well as the migration-trade relationship. The main …
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