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The world economy is mired in the severest financial crisis since the Great Depression. WESP of 2006, 2007 and 2008 had already warned of the risks for this to happen. All factors analyzed in those reports have now played out and have pushed the world economy into recession. Growth in world gross product (WGP) is expected to slow to 1.0 per cent in 2009, a sharp deceleration from the rate of 2.5 per cent estimated for 2008 and well below the more robust pace in previous years. While most develop more...
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This is an excellent 4-page paper by Giovanni Portoso and Antonio Farina, which analyses financial crises using historical data in order to predict forthcoming economic and financial crises. According to the authors, ' ...The empirical study examines 26 developing countries that experienced at least one
financial crisis since the 1970s. These countries form four regional groups: Latin
America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay
and Venezuela), Africa a more...
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JOURNAL: Development in Practice. VOLUME: 18 ISSUE: 6. AUTHOR: Pablo Gutman. Much has been researched and said about the impacts of international trade liberalisation at the country level; but little is known about its social and environmental local-level impacts. Since national averages can mask the existence of winners and losers, national-level studies may be a poor guide to addressing the plight of the rural poor and the environment that are at the core of the agenda of the social and cons more...
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This paper examines the impact of reducing corruption and improving transparency to lower trade costs in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation region.
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'The Pacific Island Countries currently face pressure to ‘integrate into the global economy’ through implementing new free trade agreements. Free traders argue that the Pacific will benefit from cheaper imports, increased investment in the region and improvements in efficiency of Pacific business and service suppliers.
This paper provides an up-to-date analysis of the free trade area (FTA) negotiations currently facing the Pacific Island countries, and potential implications for the regio more...
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'The global financial crisis is already beginning to have an impact on the ‘real economy’ in poorer countries around the world. However, the debate in the west about the impact of the crisis has largely ignored its impact on the developing world, and the voices of people from these countries are rarely heard. This report presents snapshots of the financial crisis as seen by 21 thinkers, academics and policymakers in 14 developing countries.'
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'The main objective of this report is to build a basic understanding of the potential of Africa-Asia trade and investment relations. The importance of South-South trade has been recognized for some time; however, there has been no in-depth study conducted specifically on Africa-Asia trade relations to date. Two major reasons why little research attention has been paid to this issue are the lack of available data and the relatively small size of the trade flows between the two regions. Furthermor more...
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