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A macro-framework for successful development banks
Thorne, Janine; Toit, Charlotte du - In: Development Southern Africa 26 (2009) 5, pp. 677-694
The large-scale failures of development banks in the 1970s and 1980s meant that they all but disappeared from the development agenda. However, there are still a large number of development banks worldwide that operate with various degrees of success. Some governments are also looking to...
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Targeting aid : what the World Bank has (not) achieved.
Nunnenkamp, Peter - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2002
In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the … policies. This paper argues that the World Bank's success story rests on a weak empirical foundation. The evidence does not … support the view that poverty concerns and policy assessments dominated the distribution of World Bank financing in the 1990s …
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The rise and fall in the price of food, fuel and manufactured goods : interdependency between prices and technology determining comparative advantages and development paths
Yamagata, Tatsufumi; Asuyama, Yoko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
world-leader in the sewing machine market exemplifies the fact that, of all the major inventions the company have made, raw …
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Labour and employment issues in foreign direct investment : public support conditionalities
Penfold, Bonnie - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2004
Explores how public actors, especially in home countries, link foreign direct investment (FDI) to labour and employment issues.
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The Global Economic Crisis after One Year: Is a New Paradigm for Recovery in Developing Countries Emerging?
Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
One year into the global economic crisis, it has become clear that the paradigm for international development has changed irrevocably. With leadership, moral authority and the capacity of the West in international development diminishing, developing countries. recovery and future growth will...
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Policy Responses to the Economic Crisis in Africa
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi; Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
interrupted. Already home to the largest number of low-income countries in the world, the region is now likely to experience …
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The Financial Crisis of 2008 and the Developing Countries
Naude, Wim - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
Following the financial crisis that broke in the US and other Western economies in late 2008, there is now serious concern about its impact on the$
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Wachstumseffekte von Direktinvestitionen in Entwicklungsländern : warum hohe Erwartungen häufig enttäuscht werden.
Nunnenkamp, Peter - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2004
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Debt versus equity finance in developing countries : An empirical analysis of the agent-principal model of internat. capital transfers.
Corsepius, Uwe; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Schweickert, Rainer - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 1989
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Liberalisierung des internationalen Handels mit Dienstleistungen: Herausforderungen und Chancen für Entwicklungsländer
Lücke, Matthias; Spinanger, Dean - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004
This paper discusses possible strategies for developing countries in negotiations on trade in services in the ongoing WTO Doha Development Round (DR). The liberalization of service imports (including through direct investment) will generate benefits through higher quality, lower prices, and...
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