This report describes the complex and changing interrelationship between trade, domestic investment and foreign direct … investment (FDI) and provides examples of good practices in trade policymaking that create a healthy investment climate in … developing countries. A two-by-two taxonomy is used to analyse the impact of policies affecting imports and exports in both host …

follow strategies of export driven industrialization. If we consider the share of non-OECD countries in global trade in … protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to … Africa. In this paper we present a two region product life cycle model of global specialization and trade. In it we analyse …

for developing countries in following an MNE-assisted development strategy have changed over the last decade. The growing … share of industrial activity owned and controlled by MNEs does not always result in a proportional increase in development …

MNEs, as there are few differences in their modus operandi. Besides, MNE-assisted development still depends upon the …

, and slowly increases at later stages of development. Third, the volatility of country-specific macroeconomic shocks falls … with the level of development. We argue that many theories linking volatility and development are not consistent with these … volatility into these four sources, quantify their contribution to aggregate volatility, and study how they relate to the stage …

of political freedoms versus economic development. This paper takes a new approach to provide an answer by using micro …

, and slowly increases at later stages of development. Third, the volatility of country- specific macroeconomic shocks falls … with the level of development. We argue that many theories linking volatility and development are not consistent with these … volatility into these four sources, quantify their contribution to aggregate volatility, and study how they relate to the stage …

Vietnam.s development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the … its domestic market only slowly while encouraging export growth. …

. In doing so, it considers the main channels of transmission, to focus on international trade, investment, finance and …