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Confronting the Long Crisis of Globalization

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Globalization has entered a turbulent period. Over the past twenty years, the most significant threats to international security, stability, and prosperity have evolved rapidly. Global systems are now tightly interconnected, with risk proliferating freely across borders. The drivers of change – including population growth, climate change and resource scarcity, a major shift in economic power, and increasing state fragility – produce unpredictable, non-linear effects. Technology continues to more...

Added by Zunia on March 15, 2010

Breaking the Immigration Stalemate: From Deep Disagreements to Constructive Proposals

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brookings.edu -

Immigration is a daunting issue even in normal times. And these are hardly normal times. The recent financial and economic crisis has exacerbated previously high levels of distrust between Americans and their leaders. Immigration policy has both contributed to that distrust and suffered from it.The report focused on a few critical parts of this hellishly complicated policy domain. And while the task set for in the paper has been demanding, even more arduous is the task facing policy-makers and more...

Added by Zunia on March 15, 2010

Foreign Direct Investment in Industrial Transition: The Experience of Vietnam

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rspas.anu.edu.au -

This paper examines the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the process of industrial transition in Vietnam in the context of market-oriented reforms undertaken over the past two decades. The findings are consistent with the conventional wisdom that concomitant liberalization of trade and investment regimes, accompanied by creating a congenial environment for market-based decisions by the private agents, is vital for reaping developmental gains form FDI.

Added by Zunia on March 14, 2010

South Africa's Trade and Growth

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"This paper examines key trade and trade related issues facing South Africa. It describes South Africa‘s re-entry into the global trade architecture and its economic growth in the context of its trade performance, as well as the composition and performance of South African exports at the product and sector level in the period from the early 1990s to 2006. The study also assesses South Africa‘s comparative trade performance based on a gravity model of international trade and discusses some key more...

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Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Clayton Yeutter - New United States Trade Policy under the Obama Administration

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adbi.org -

"Clayton Yeutter practices in the international trade and food and agriculture areas. He came to the firm in 1993, after having served in cabinet and sub-cabinet posts under four U.S. Presidents. He served as U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) from 1985-88, and while there led the American team in negotiating the historic U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, the precursor to the North American Free Trade Agreement. He also helped launch the most ambitious trade negotiation in history, the 100-nation more...

Added by Zunia on March 14, 2010

Development, Trade and Carbon Reduction

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odi.org.uk -

The impact of climate change will impose new costs on developing country exporters, especially if markets do not work correctly and international agreements are not well designed. If the costs of carbon emissions are priced correctly, then markets could ensure that emissions are reduced in the most efficient ways. Internationally agreed and administered rules are needed for both trade and climate change, as the actions of one country can damage the interests of others and because coordinated more...

Added by Zunia on March 11, 2010

Beyond Barriers: The Gender Implications of Trade Liberalization in Southeast Asia

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tradeknowledgenetwork.net -

There is little doubt that trade liberalization has had a profound effect on the well-being of women in Southeast Asia. Not all of these impacts are negative, however. Indeed, the opening up of the region’s economies, at both national and regional levels, has brought about opportunities in the form of new employment, which may allow them to access higher incomes and improve their status in the society. Given their increasing role in the economies of Southeast Asia, however, women are often the more...

Added by Zunia on March 10, 2010

Beyond Barriers: The Gender Implications of Trade Liberalization in Southern Africa

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This document argues that although trade can be a catalyst for gender equality, the effects of trade liberalization and economic globalization on women, in particular, so far have been mixed. For example, while in a large number of cases, trade in general has improved women's empowerment and livelihood, in some other cases, the benefits accrued by women from trade liberalization have been marginal, relatively lower than those accrued by men. Worse, in some other cases, trade liberalization has more...

Added by Zunia on March 10, 2010

Report on G20 Trade and Investment Measures (March 2010)

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Part I of the Report provides a brief overview of recent trends in global trade and investment flows. Part II, which has been prepared by the WTO Secretariat, deals with trade and trade-related measures. Part III has been prepared jointly by the OECD and UNCTAD Secretariats and deals with investment and investment-related measures

Added by Zunia on March 10, 2010

Internationally-Recognized Core Labor Standards in EL Salvador

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This study on core labor standards in El Salvador reports that many of the 67,000 mostly women workers employed in the country’s 15 export processing zones suffer from appalling treatment ranging from verbal abuse and threats to physical abuse and sexual harassment. The ITUC report, published to coincide with the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) review of El Salvador’s trade policies, finds that many public workers are barred from exercising their right to organize, and that the right to strike more...

Added by Zunia on March 10, 2010

Changing the Aid for Trade Debate towards Content

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The Aid for Trade (AfT) debate has mostly focused on how to implement AfT programs (aid architecture), rather than on what to do and the specific content of these programs. Exports from developing countries, especially from sub-Saharan Africa, continue to be concentrated in few commodities, and diversification into new exports and markets remains poor. In order to make Aid for Trade more effective, the debate urgently needs to refocus on better research, evaluation and design of concrete more...

Added by Zunia on March 10, 2010

Peer-to-Peer Lending and Community Development Finance

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This working paper explores Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in greater detail. Part I offers background on P2P and the state of the P2P lending industry; Part II outlines the potential community development finance implications of P2P; and Part III discusses the working group and next steps necessary to successfully marry P2P technology and community development finance.

Added by Zunia on March 09, 2010

Investigating the Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on the People's Republic of China's Processed Exports

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"Many argue that the yuan needs to appreciate to rebalance the People's Republic of China's trade. However, empirical evidence on the effects of a CNY appreciation on the People's Republic of China's exports has been mixed for the largest category of exports, processed exports. Since much of the value-added of these goods comes from parts and components produced in Japan, the Republic of Korea, and other East Asian supply chain countries, it is important to control for exchange rate changes in more...

Added by Zunia on March 09, 2010

The Potential Role of Non-Traditional Donors’ Aid in Africa

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The present Issue Paper challenges the perception that non-traditional aid lacks transparency and contains little or any conditionality thereby undermining the development efforts of ‘traditional’ donors. Moreover, this paper examines the implications of the re-emergence of China, India, Brazil and South Africa as important ‘non-traditional’ donors to Africa on sustainable development and aid flows and governance.

Added by Zunia on March 09, 2010

Aid for Trade and Climate Change Financing Mechanisms

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This paper explores how climate change financing and aid for trade can address the climate change adaptation needs and specific supply-side constraints of African LDCs and small, vulnerable economies (SVEs) in a complementary and supportive manner. The paper concludes that to make climate change financing and aid for trade complementary and mutually reinforcing, both African countries and donors need to recognize and specify the trade impacts of National Adaptation Plans of Action (NAPAs) more...

Added by Zunia on March 09, 2010

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