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Emissions Trading: Good Governance Requires 100% Auctioning

This article by Iain McGill, Regina Betz argues 'that emissions trading permits should be auctioned'.

http://cpd.org.au/book/export/html/4644

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Exporting Corruption: How Rich Country Export Credit Agencies Facilitate Corruption in the Global South

An interview with The Corner House. The Corner House has been a leader in documenting how rich country institutions, especially export credit agencies (ECAs), promote or contribute to corruption in developing countries, and in documenting the effects. (Multinational Monitor, May/June 2006)

http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2006/052006/interview-cornerhouse.html

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Foreign Direct Investment, development and gender equity: a review of research and policy

This paper provides a summary of the empirical and policy-related literature on the multifaceted relationships between gender inequalities and foreign direct investment (FDI). It reviews the research on the impact of FDI on investment, productivity, trade, employment, wages and working conditions. (E Braunstein, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2006)

http://www.corporate-accountability.org/eng/documents/2006/fdi_and_gender_unrisd.pdf

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Future Supply Chain 2016

"Future Supply Chain 2016," a study conducted by Capgemini, looks at how supply chains will need to change to move into the future. The report covers challenges that will forces companies to alter their operations, innovations that currently exist, ways in which collaboration will be beneficial and other solutions to issues such as carbon dioxide emissions and traffic congestion.

http://www.futuresupplychain.com/downloads/

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Gender in Economics Indepth Report

Notwithstanding the fact that economic, trade and labour policies have differentiated impacts on men and women, the concept of gender has been systematically ignored by the analysis and formulation of these policies (Chioke, 2008).

http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/5952.html

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Growth with Responsibility in a Globalized World - Findings of the Shadow G-8

On June 6-8, 2007, heads of governments and states will meet in Heiligendamm, Germany, for the next G-8 summit, arguably the most infl uential and prestigious forum for world leaders to shape the global policy agenda. As the previous thirty-two summits did, the gathering of the G-8 in Heiligendamm is likely to provoke intense debate not only on the summit's results and gaps but also on the scope and limits of the G-8 as a political forum itself. With this publication, the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, and Erlassjahr contribute to this discussion. It is based on a joint project called the "Shadow G-8," a meeting of a diverse group of concerned citizens from around the world, including former government offi cials, G-8 alumni, and leading economists, which was initiated and chaired by Nobel laureate economist Joseph E. Stiglitz.(Joseph Stiglitz and Stephanie Griffith-Jones, Dialogue on Globalisation, May 2007).

http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/iez/global/04472.pdf

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Handbook on Women-owned SMEs: Challenges and Opportunities in Policies and Programmes

Discussing and comparing the situation of WOEs in different countries and under varying circumstances, the contributions to this book assume a global outlook. Special consideration is given to developing economies, and to some extent transition economies, but the material presented includes observations from developed countries as well.(Global Knowledge Partnership, September 2007)

http://www.globalknowledge.org/gkps_portal/index.cfm?&menuid=683&parentid=179

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Hernando de Soto Asks Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else

July 23, 2002-Renowned economist Hernando de Soto spoke on the role of property rights and development before a capacity-filled audience of Bank staff and members from the Inter-American Dialogue at World Bank headquarters last week. De Soto argues that every person who owns property, no matter where he or she lives, is entitled to a legal document-a title-that certifies that property's value in the eyes of the law.De Soto estimates that nearly five billion people are legally and economically disenfranchised by their own governments. Since these people do not have access to a comprehensive legal property system, they cannot leverage their assets to produce additional wealth. They are left with what De Soto calls "dead capital" (World Bank).

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK%3A20055477~menuPK%3A-1~pagePK%3A34370~piPK%3A34424~theSitePK%3A4607,00.html

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International Development Economics Associates

IDEAs has been established with the purpose of building a pluralist network of heterodox economists engaged in the teaching, research and application of critical analyses of economic development. While the organization will be South-based, the network will be open to all committed to developing more appropriate and progressive analysis of development challenges.

http://www.networkideas.org/

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Investing in Every Child: An Economic Study of the Czosts and Benefits of Eliminating Child Labour [PDF]

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour: IPEC, 2003. One in every six children aged 5 to 17 worldwide is exploited by child labour in its different forms, according to estimates made by the ILO in 2002. Many of these children are forced to risk their health and their lives and mortgage their future as productive adults. This report is based on a wide range of data and technical assumptions about the quantifiable elements of the costs and benefits of ending child labour.

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/publ/download/2003_12_investingchild.pdf

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Legal empowerment for local resource control: Securing local resource rights within foreign investment projects in Africa (pdf)

This report draws lessons from experience of using legal processes to secure local resource rights within the context of foreign investment projects in Africa. Security of local resource rights is a major challenge in many parts of Africa. (Lorenzo Cotula, IIED, 2007)

http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/12542IIED.pdf

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Lula's Brazil kowtows to the free market

George Monbiot, Tuesday October 29, 2002, The Guardian, UK. Democracy in Brazil both won and lost on Sunday night. It won because, for the first time in its history, the nation chose a man of humble origins and radical views to be its president. It lost because that man is now forbidden to be radical. The strictures imposed by the capital markets and the International Monetary Fund prevent him from intervening in the economy or commissioning the new social spending so desperately needed by the poor.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,821092,00.html

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MacroScan

MacroScan is a website managed by the Economic Research Foundation, New Delhi, seeking to provide an alternative to conservative and mainstream positions in economics. It undertakes and disseminates analyses, by professional economists, of the Indian and global economy that are informed by the perspective that: * distributive justice should be a primary goal of economic policy * socio-economic structures are important in determining economic outcomes * markets are not always benign * globalisation as it occurs today is inequalising and is a challenge to sovereignty in economic policy-making * state intervention and regulation are crucial for improving overall welfare. MacroScan also seeks to build capacities to undertake such analyses in order to strengthen those advocating an alternative economic paradigm.

http://www.macroscan.com/

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Mind the gap

(Boston Globe) By Laura Secor, Globe Staff, 1/5/2003. When trade barriers began to fall in the late 1970s, politicians and pundits boasted that economic globalization would usher in a capitalist utopia: The circle of prosperity would widen, allowing poor countries at last to catch up with rich ones. But ever since the Seattle World Trade Organization summit of 1999, a growing anti-globalization movement has contended just the opposite: The world's rich and poor are more unequal than ever, and neoliberal free trade policies are to blame. Which is the real story?

http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/0301/0491.html

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Natural Macroeconomic Model

New macroeconomic model based on a new price theory

http://www.macroeconomicmodel.com

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Natural Resource Abundance and Human Capital Accumulation

This study examines indicators of human capital accumulation together with data for natural resource abundance and rents in a panel of 102 countries running from 1970 to 1999. Mineral wealth makes a positive and marked difference on human capital accumulation. Over the three decades, a $1 shock to resource rent generates five cents of extra educational expenditure per year. These results are consistent with Hirschman's conjecture that enclave economies have weaker production leakages but stronger government revenue linkages than other activities. The "wealth channel" identified in this paper implies that caution should be exerted when discouraging countries from exploiting their mineral wealth, especially for countries where human capital is scarce.

http://ideas.uqam.ca/ideas/data/Papers/wpawuwpdc0112001.html

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North Korea's Transformation: Famine, Aid and Markets

This essay is an extended version of "How Famine Changed North Korea," an oped published on the Washington Post on February 28, 2008. Its Korean translation was published on the April 2008 edition of Korea Development Institute's monthly magazine, Review of North Korea Economy.

http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/04/15/china18536.htm

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OligopolyWatch

Steve Hannaford. 2007.This site is an attempt to make sense of the business pages in the newspaper, particularly the stories about mergers and acquisitions. The term Oligopoly denotes a situation where there are few sellers for a product or service. The members of an oligopoly change the nature of a free market. The new oligopoly is made up of multinational corporations that have chosen specific product or service categories to dominate.

http://www.oligopolywatch.com/

(Added: Wed Nov 07 2007   Hits: 56)

Participatory Budgeting in Africa: A Training Companion with cases from eastern and southern Africa - Volume II: facilitation methods [pdf]

Participatory budgeting is emerging as an innovative urban management practice with excellent potential to promote principles of good urban governance. Part two of the training companion (Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2008).

http://www.ansa-africa.net/uploads/documents/publications/Participatory_budgeting_Africa_Vol2_2008.pdf

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Participatory Budgeting in Africa: A Training Companion with cases from eastern and southern Africa -Volume I: concepts and principles [pdf]

Participatory budgeting is emerging as an innovative urban management practice with excellent potential to promote principles of good urban governance.This Training Companion is one of the results of this interregional collaboration. It is based on concepts and illustrative examples from African cities that recently initiated participatory budgeting.Affiliated Network for Social Accountability (2008)

http://www.ansa-africa.net/uploads/documents/publications/Participatory_budgeting_Africa_Vol1_2008.pdf

(Added: Mon Jul 14 2008   Hits: 33)

Participatory Economics

Participatory Economics (parecon for short) is a type of economy proposed as an alternative to contemporary capitalism. The underlying values parecon seeks to implement are equity, solidarity, diversity, and participatory self management. The main institutions to attain these ends are council democracy, balanced job complexes, remuneration according to effort and sacrifice, and participatory planning.

http://www.parecon.org/

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Poverty - not ideology - must be World Bank's focus

SciDev.Net, David Dickson 23 March 2005. The anticipated appointment of Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank presents a major challenge to the whole development community. Science may well benefit; but it is essential that poverty alleviation, not ideological ambition, dominates the bank's agenda.

http://www.scidev.net/Editorials/index.cfm?fuseaction=readEditorials&itemid=152&language=1

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REPORT EPZs: working conditions and labour rights around the world

ICFTU, 6/12/2004. Export Processing Zones, spreading particularly in the world's poorest countries, are spearheading the race to the bottom, the hunt for ever-cheaper labour, which undermines even the most basic workers' rights. Everything you need to know about EPZs: this report covers theory and practice with first hand accounts and case studies from around the world. The report expresses serious doubts as to the long-term benefits of EPZs in terms of development for the host countries. Benefits could be achieved if the rights of workers were respected - only the presence of free and independent trade unions in the zones could ensure this.

http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991220896&Language=EN

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Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)

Research Papers in Economics is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 44 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available. The RePEc database holds over 300,000 items of interest, over 202,000 of which are available online: 146,000 working papers 154,000 journal articles 1,600 software components 900 book and chapter listings 6,400 author contact and publication listings 8,400 institutional contact listings

http://repec.org/

(Added: Wed Mar 16 2005   Modified: Wed Jun 07 2006   Hits: 198)

Rising Inequality in the New Global Economy [PDF - 831KB]

In this transcript of her 2005 WIDER lecture Nancy Birdsall of the Centre For Global Development argues that, at a global level, inequality matters. Birdsall argues that high levels of inequality like those the globe currently experiences impede development, make the planet less safe and more prone to conflict, and are indicative of an unjust world. Moreover, Birdsall argues that, contrary to the opinions of globophiles like Thomas Friedman, there is nothing inherently equalising about globalisation and that, if we want a more equal world, we need to take action to make it. In particular, she argues what is required is a global social contract, through which the developed world assists the developing world in meeting the needs of its poorest. Among other interesting factoids presented her speech Birdsall notes that the richest 10 percent of Americans earn over 10,000 times as much as the poorest 10 percent of Ethiopians. Birdsall argues that such inequality is unsustainable.

http://www.cgdev.org/doc/commentary/birdsall/WIDERlecturefull.pdf

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