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Policy Brief: Substantial Market Power and Competition

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18-Sep-2008

How to apply competition laws to dominant firms? This question has raised much interest in recent years. While significant differences persist in the enforcement practices of competition regimes around ...

DEV Centre Policy Brief No 38: How to Spend It: Commodity and non-commodity sovereign wealth funds

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11-Sep-2008

Helmut Reisen

Sovereign wealth funds have become important players in global financial markets. But their investments have repeatedly raised concerns. This paper argues that the principal motivation for setting up SWFs should put such concerns into the appropriate perspective.

DEV Centre Policy Brief No 37: To Benefit from Plenty: Lessons from Chile and Norway

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08-Sep-2008

Gøril Havro and Javier Santiso

It might seem obvious discovering an asset such as oil or copper would be wonderful news for the country making the find. Yet the opposite is often true. The windfall can bring poverty, civil strife, corruption, inequality, slower growth and undemocratic practices.

Policy Brief: Plea Bargaining and Settlement of Cartel Cases

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04-Sep-2008

As competition authorities have stepped up their efforts to detect and punish cartels, several cases have highlighted how differences in enforcement procedures between countries have a substantial impact ...

Policy Brief: Rising Agricultural Prices: Causes, Consequences and Responses

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01-Sep-2008

World prices of wheat, coarse grains (in particular corn), rice and oilseedcrops nearly doubled between 2005 and 2007 and continued to rise in early2008. These prices, along with those of meat, sugar and ...

Policy Brief: Economic Survey of Norway, 2008

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20-Aug-2008

The Norwegian economy has been flourishing of late, enjoying substantial real income growth with low inflation and very low unemployment. Benefiting from rising world energy prices and favourable supply ...

Policy Brief: Business, Eco-innovation and Globalisation

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06-Aug-2008

New products and services are being developed at an increasing rate in the technology-driven global economy. But how can we ensure that environmental considerations are taken into account throughout the ...

Policy Brief: Research and Development: Going Global

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04-Aug-2008

The unprecedented pace and scale of today’s globalisation processhas attracted much attention in recent years. Globalisation is having aparticularly large impact on innovation. The scope for global collaborationis ...

DEV Centre Policy Brief No 36: Making the Most of Aid: Changes for Africa's agribusiness

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01-Aug-2008

Jeff Dayton-Johnson and Kiichiro Fukasaku

Africa’s export performance lags behind East Asia, there are nevertheless a variety of experiences with aid, trade and development  from which policy lessons can be drawn. This Policy Brief highlights lessons from country case studies on Mali, Mozambique, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.

Policy Brief: Reforming Corporate Income Tax

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29-Jul-2008

How can countries create a business-friendly tax environment forinvestment? How can they minimise corporate tax-induced financialdistortions? Or maintain current levels of corporate tax revenue? And howmight ...

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