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Foreign Direct Investment in China; Some Lessons for Other Countries
Zebregs, Harm; Tseng, Wanda - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
China's increasing openness to foreign direct investment (FDI) has contributed importantly to its exceptional growth … performance. This paper examines China's experience with FDI and identifies some lessons for other countries. Most of the factors … explaining China's success have also been important in attracting FDI to other countries: market size, labor costs, quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264264
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Tax Incentives and Investment in the Eastern Caribbean
Sosa, Sebastian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
subsidy to domestic saving. In the presence of tax holidays-the most common incentive scheme in the region-the distortion on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825616
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Tax Concessions and Foreign Direct Investmentin the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union
Chai, Jingqing; Goyal, Rishi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
Tax concessions have been employed as a central component of the development strategy in the small island states comprising the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. This paper compares the costs of concessions in terms of revenues forgone with the benefits in terms of increased foreign direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005826331
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Empirical Evidenceon the Effects of Tax Incentives
Klemm, Alexander; Parys, Stefan van - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper considers two empirical questions about tax incentives: (1) are incentives used as tools of tax competition and (2) how effective are incentives in attracting investment? To answer these, we prepared a new dataset of tax incentives in over 40 Latin American, Caribbean and African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528617
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Clusters As a Driving Engine for FDI
Yehoue, Etienne B. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
This paper develops a model that highlights the importance of clusters for attracting foreign direct investment. It shows from a game theoretical perspective how the combination of setting up a cluster and implementing policy reforms will be a key engine for attracting FDI. Based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005604916
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Mobilizing Revenue in Sub-Saharan Africa; Empirical Norms and Key Determinants
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
Mobilizing more revenue is a priority for sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Countries have to finance their development agendas, and weak revenue mobilization is the root cause of fiscal imbalances in several countries. This paper reviews the experience of low-income SSA countries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242287
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Financial Development, the Structure of Capital Markets, and the Global Digital Divide
Yartey, Charles Amo - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper examines the role of financial development and financial structure in explaining cross-country diffusion of information communication technology (ICT). Using panel data for 76 emerging and advanced countries for the period 1990-2003, the paper finds that credit and stock market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263968
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Political Risk Aversion
Valderrama, Laura - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper studies the effect of individual uncertainty on collective decision-making to implement innovation. We show … Fernandez and Rodrik (1991). Blocking innovation is rooted in the aversion to the potential loss of political clout in future …-monotonic relationship between institutional efficiency and the size of innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528646
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Intangible Capital, Relative Asset Shortages and Bubbles
Giglio, Stefano; Severo, Tiago - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
We analyze an overlapping generations economy with financial frictions and accumulation of both physical and intangible capital. The key difference between them is that intangible capital cannot be used as collateral for borrowing. As intangibles become more important in production, financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370542
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Nepal; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878419