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100 _aHughes, Anthony
245 _aLowering the threshold : reducing the cost and risk of private direct investment in least developed, small and vulnerable economies
260 _c2002
520 _aExamines the proposal for the replacement of trade preferences by investment preferences, which was made in a paper to the St. Lucia Meeting of the Commonwealth Secretariat/World Bank Task Force on Small States. Makes the point that trade preferences had always been intended to persuade investors to locate enterprises in the preference-receiving economies.
583 _c6/12/02
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