Publication: Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics--Europe 2004 : Economic Integration and Social Responsibility

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2007
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2007
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Bourguignon, Francois
Jacquet, Pierre
Pleskovic, Boris
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To address these broad questions: How to analyze the impact of globalization? What is the effect of rich countries' policies on developing ones? How to redefine the development agenda and scale-up the aid effort? The European Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE-Europe) focused on some of the problematic features of globalization and discussed the global impact of developed countries' policies in a number of crucial areas for developing countries, such as farm trade, migrations, the protection of intellectual property, and capital flows. It also highlighted the role and responsibilities of the private sector. This volume, organized in twelve chapters, opens with the five plenary session papers that were at the core of the discussion and focuses on five crucial issues and policy challenges: agricultural trade, migration flows, intellectual property rights, the costs and benefits of international capital flows, and options for sovereign debt restructuring. The seven remaining chapters offer a collection of selected papers discussed in the parallel workshops held during the conference. They cover a wider range of issues, from the role and responsibilities of private actors and the components of the business environment, to the sources of development finance and the relationship between commodity resources and development, to the issue of scaling up, and the possibility of intensifying the volume and impact of development aid.
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Bourguignon, Francois; Jacquet, Pierre; Pleskovic, Boris. 2007. Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics--Europe 2004 : Economic Integration and Social Responsibility. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6691 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.
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