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Synchronized Factories: Latin America and the Caribbean in the Era of Global Value Chains

Blyde, Juan S. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

The objective of this report is to examine the extent to which countries in Latin America and the Caribbean participate in global value chains and what are the drivers of such participation. Production processes have been increasingly fragmented worldwide. For example, the production of the...

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Economic effects of FDI : how important is rising market concentration?

Vrolijk, Kasper - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2022

Many governments adopt policies and actively compete to attract foreign direct investment (FDI). Particularly for lower-income countries, attracting FDI - and with it the benefits of cooperating with multi-national enterprises (MNEs) - is a promising strategy for participating in global supply...

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Implementation of the WTO Investment Facilitation for development agreement : identification of reform needs and development policy measure

Berger, Axel; Bolmer, Ann-Margret; Gitt, Florian; … - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2023

More than 110 Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO), many of them developing countries and least-developed countries (LDCs), are negotiating a plurilateral Agreement on Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD). In contract to existing bilateral investment treaties that establish...

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Drivers and Impacts in the Globalization of Corporate R&D: An Introduction Based on the European Experience

Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Pietro; Vivarelli, Marco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: "Globalization and Corporate R&D" forthcoming …

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