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		<title><![CDATA[Race to the bottom? The presidential candidates' positions on trade]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2758_137/ai_n27944485]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]  "Only when the American people are free to exchange goods unimpeded by the often faulty judgment of politicians will freedom and prosperity prevail."  IN RECENT MONTHS, the economy has been in the headlines and in the sights of politicians seeking the presidency. Particularly on the Democratic...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[From Stabilization to Marketization: The Political Economy of Reforms in Azerbaijan]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3996/is_200804/ai_n27899298]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Abstract: The author analyzes the process of reform started in post-Soviet Azerbaijan from the political economy perspective. He reviews the literature on the political economy of transition and presents the political-economic history of transition in Azerbaijan in three stages based on political developments. The author introduces and applies relevant indexes...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Doha deal still &#39;possible&#39; with concessions: Bush]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200803/ai_n24969642]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; President George W. Bush said Friday his administration is prepared to make "serious concessions" to help achieve a global trade liberalization pact if other countries reciprocate.  Bush said after talks with Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd that he remains committed to the foundering Doha Round of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Faster Integration Of Services Markets Could Lead To Huge Benefits,Says World Bank.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-1 February 2008-WORLD BANK GROUP: Faster Integration  Of Services Markets Could Lead To Huge Benefits,Says World  BankC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD     RDATE:31012008     GENEVA -- Liberalization of services trade could produce large  benefits for developed and developing countries alike, says...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The international dimensions of authoritarian regime stability: Jordan in the post-Cold War era]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[INTRODUCTION  EXPLAINING THE RESILIENCE OF authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa has become an urgent question for comparative political scholars. (1) Few Arab political regimes pass democracy's most basic electoral litmus test--inclusive contestation and public participation in free, fair, and regular elections for offices of executive authority--much...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Alternatives to neo-liberalism in the Third World.(Features)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6032/is_200706/ai_n24208319]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Third World has entered an era of ideological flux. The  inadequacies of neo-liberalism have spawned a widespread questioning of  this dominant worldview. Intellectuals and political movements search  for an alternative path that offers the hope of a more desirable, yet  practicable, future. In response, the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Effects Of Trade Liberalization On R&D, Industry Productivity And Welfare When Firms Are Heterogeneous]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=317252]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper develops an oligopolistic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms to examine how trade liberalization affects R&D (Research & Development) investment, industry productivity and social welfare. Three effects of trade liberalization on industry productivity are identified: A direct effect through changes in R&D; A scale effect due to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[China says EU, US obstacles biggest 'sticking point' in Doha round]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING AFP &#8212; Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai said Monday the biggest "sticking point" in the Doha Round of global trade liberalization talks are obstacles put up by the United States and European Union.  Bo said the talks had addressed issues of concern to developed countries such as the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Norm-based behavior and corporate malpractice]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeffrey Skilling held high-level posts in Enron until a few months before it filed for bankruptcy at the end of 2001. When he was a master's degree student at Harvard, one of his professors asked him what he would do if he knew the company he worked for were selling...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Turkmenistan votes for successor to eccentric dictator]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASHGABAT AFP &#8212; Turkmenistan will hold a presidential election to choose a successor to totalitarian leader Saparmurat Niyazov, kindling hopes of a political thaw in the Central Asian state despite expectations that the vote will be rigged.  Current interim leader Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is seen as guaranteed to beat his...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Impact Of Trade Liberalization On Productivity Within And Across Industries: Theory And Evidence]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=317256]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Numerous studies have investigated the link between trade policy and firm productivity. Despite justifying firm level analysis on the basis of considerable heterogeneity between firms within narrowly defined industries, these studies typically constrain all firms to have the same expected response to changes in trade policy. This paper develops a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[British report critical of EU economy structure: report]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON AFP &#8212; The British finance ministry is set to publish a report that argues that the European economy remains structurally rigid and needs further liberalization, the Financial Times reported.  The publication of the 70-page report comes as British finance minister Gordon Brown was set to attend a meeting...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[July 1 D-Day for EU utility liberalization.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5243/is_200701/ai_n19674069]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-24 January 2007-DATAMONITOR: July 1 D-Day for EU  utility liberalizationC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD    RDATE:25012007    London - July 1 2007 is the deadline for European Union member  states to comply with the second phase of European energy  liberalization, but according to...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Multi-Product Firms And Trade Liberalization]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313787]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper develops a general equilibrium model of multi-product firms and analyzes their behavior during trade liberalization. Firm productivity in a given product is modeled as a combination of firm-level "Ability" and firm-product-level "Expertise", both of which are stochastic and unknown prior to the firm's payment of a sunk cost...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[FDI In Services And Market Access: A Paradox Of Trade Liberalization]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314107]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In an international oligopoly model, this paper investigates interaction between trade liberalization in goods and liberalization in service FDI Foreign Direct Investment. Since some services are market-specific and have non-tradable nature, a foreign firm has a higher cost in service provisions compared to its domestic competitor and it can overcome...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Globalization: A Reappraisal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper on the benefits and costs of financial globalization for developing countries has exploded in last few years, but along many disparate channels with a variety of apparently conflicting results. There is still little robust evidence of the growth benefits of broad capital account liberalization, but a number of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trade Liberalization And Productivity Growth]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=317647]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper presents a trade model with firm-level productivity differences and R&D-driven growth. Trade liberalization causes the least productive firms to exit but also slows the development of new products. The overall effect on productivity growth depends on the size of intertemporal knowledge spillovers in R&D (Research & Development). When...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Productivity Effects Of Services Liberalization: Evidence From The Czech Republic]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313901]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[While there is considerable empirical evidence on the impact of liberalizing trade in goods, the effects of services liberalization have not been empirically established. This paper examines the link between services sector reforms and the productivity of manufacturing industries relying on services inputs. The results, based on firm-level data from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[LEAD: WTO gives up plan on trade liberalization accord this month: sources]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDP/is_2006_April_24/ai_n26874408]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA, April 21 Kyodo]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trade Liberalization And Industrial Restructuring Through Mergers And Acquisitions]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313715]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper analyzes Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) as a previously neglected channel of industrial restructuring in the face of trade liberalization. Using the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement of 1989 as a natural experiment, the author shows that trade liberalization leads to a significant increase in M&A activity. He also...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://resources.bnet.com/topic/liberalization.html"><![CDATA[Liberalization]]></category>
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