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FOREIGN CAPITAL, WELFARE AND URBAN UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE PRESENCE OF AGRICULTURAL DUALISM

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005

In a two sector mobile capital Harris-Todaro model, such as Corden and Findlay (1975), an inflow of foreign capital in the presence of protectionist policy is welfare deteriorating as well as unemployment accentuating. But, the developing countries have chosen liberalized investment and trade...

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REMOVAL OF PROTECTIONISM, FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND WELFARE IN A MODEL OF INFORMAL SECTOR

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukherjee, Ujjaini - EconWPA - 2005

The paper develops a three-sector general equilibrium model with two informal sectors with complete mobility of labour between these sectors and with a positive relationship between wage income and labour's efficiency to show that the results relating to foreign capital inflow and removal of...

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Does China have an impact on foreign direct investment to Latin America?

Santabarbara, Daniel; Garcia-Herrero, Alicia - EconWPA - 2005

We analyze empirically whether the emergence of China as a large recipient of FDI has affected the amount of FDI … find a substitution from Latin American inward FDI to China, when other relevant factors are taken into account. However …, concentrating on the last few years (from 1995 to 2001), when FDI boomed worldwide and negotiations for China’s WTO membership …

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Environmental Technology Transfer in a FDI Regime A Developing Country Perspective

One, Author; Two, Author; Thirdone, U. - EconWPA - 2002

The environmental impact of Foreign Direct Investment is still to be explored totally. It is often argued that investment may come to a region or country where environment protection norms are less strict. Investors may be induced to outsource their pollution-intensive production where the...

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Does China have an impact on foreign direct investment to Latin America?

Garcia-Herrero, Alicia; Santabarbara, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

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Financial contagion, interest rates and the role of the exchange rate as shock absorber in Central and Eastern Europe

Habib, Maurizio Michael - EconWPA - 2002

This paper studies the impact of external factors on daily exchange rates and short-term interest rates in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland during the period August 1997 – May 2001. I find that neither exchange rates nor interest rates are influenced by short-term German interest rates....

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Causes and consequences of the 1982 Third World Debt Crisis

Stambuli, P. Kalonga - EconWPA - 2002

This paper investigates underlying causes of the debt crisis that only surfaced with Mexico’s unilateral moratorium on her foreign obligations in 1982. The paper investigates the evolutionary trend of LDC debt and the consequences for lenders, borrowers and the international financial system....

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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...

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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...

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Systems Analysis of Social Security in a Transition Economy: The Ukrainian case.

Dobronogov, Anton - EconWPA - 1999

This paper deals with a case study on the social security system in a transition economy in Ukraine. The severe socioeconomic crisis in Ukraine, including a huge decline of production, hyperinflation, and the informalization of the economy, caused both a substantial reduction of social security...

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