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Mercosur countries have witnessed a boom of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows since the early 1990s. However, regional integration, viewed in isolation, was not sufficient for the subregion to regain its attractiveness to FDI. FDI growth in individual Mercosur countries was closely related...
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Globalization improves the prospects for developing countries (DCs) to catch up economically with industrialized … countries. Depending on economic policies with respect to openness and factor accumulation, globalization may increase capital … world economy. Nevertheless, many observers draw an overly pessimistic picture of the perspectives of DCs in the era of …
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. Globalization through FDI has become significantly more important since the early 1990s. Various groups of developing countries have … determinants of FDI, notably the size of local markets, can no longer be taken for granted. Globalization tends to induce a shift …
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While international trade can offer gains from specialization and access to a wider range of products, it is also closely interlinked with global environmental problems, above all, anthropogenic climate change. This survey provides a structured overview of the economic literature on the...
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Using a well-known index of corruption, this paper examines the determinants of corruption for a large sample of countries. Specifically, the present study brings empirical evidence to bear on the question of whether economic freedom or political freedom serves as a deterrent to corrupt...
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