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Foreign Presence, Spillovers, and Productivity: Evidence from Ghana
Waldkirch, Andreas; Ofosu, Andra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper investigates the effect of foreign presence on the productivity of manufacturing industries in Ghana, using firm level panel data. We examine both labor and total factor productivity (TFP), which we compute using the Levinsohn and Petrin (2003) methodology. We control for a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621438
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Institutional Laws, and Mergers and Acquisitions in India: A Review/Recommendation
Reddy, K. Srinivasa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The paper intends to review, summarize and discuss various institutional laws refer to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in India, and thereby recommend fruitful policy guidelines for institutions and managers participating in foreign investment and acquisition deals. Further, we also show the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240209
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Revisiting the Informal Sector: A General Equilibrium Approach
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
During the last 50 years with unprecedented population growth and urbanization, economic development, particularly in developing countries failed to generate adequate employment and income opportunities in the modern sector, compelling the surplus labour force to generate its own means of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259973
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International economic theory and politics: world structure before, during and after the early 21st Century Crisis
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Adam Smith (1776) considered the phenomenon of division of labor so enormously significant for the creation of a nation’s wealth that he devoted the first three chapters of his book to an investigation of this process. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596380
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Impactos sociais do desinvestimento
Moniz, António; Gomes, Cláudia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
The resulting economic integration of industrial processes and manufacturing internationalisation lead several authors to argue that world economy is globalised. In this context, the approach to the divestment concept without an social and económical context, does not show a group of associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621263
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Value Chains and Global Inequalities: Plantain, Contract Farming, and Vulnerability of the Small-Scale Farmers in Colombia (Discussion Paper)
Baquero Melo, Jairo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The plantain is an important agricultural product worldwide. It is the staple food of millions of people, and represents a source of incomes for farmers participating in the international trade. In Colombia, the exportation plantain is chiefly harvested by small-scale farmers. However, they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110428
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The metaphors of globalization and trade. an analysis of the language used in the World Trade Organization
Ghafele, Roya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This research project examined the metaphors of Globalization and trade in the context of current asymmetries … demonstrated in the empirical part of the article. Metaphors on Globalization and trade were extracted from face-to-face interviews … force in making trade “speakable” and by doing so providing the one particular view on Globalization that hardly leaves any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258017
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Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?
Co, Catherine Y.; Dimova, Ralitza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential market access program for the least developed sub-Saharan...
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Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 Indonesian regions, and investigate the labour market mechanisms behind these effects. The identification strategy relies on combining information on initial regional labour and product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884152
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Gümrük Birliği sonrasında Türkiye'de dışa açıklık ve sanayileşme
Tonus, Özgür - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The Customs Union between Turkey and the European Union was the milestone to complete the process of trade liberalization, which had already started in the early 1980s. Global economic environment and Turkey’s Structural Adjustment Programs, which has been supervised by International Monetary...
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