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China's growing economic activity in Africa
Besada, Hany - 2008
Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … now Africa's third largest trading partner behind the EU and the US. The Chinese FDI stock in Africa has grown from $49 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464623
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Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World
Lerner, Joshua; Liu, Junxi; Moscona, Jacob; Yang, David Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries, especially the US. This paper investigates the international consequences of the rise of a new hub for innovation, focusing on the dramatic growth of high-potential entrepreneurship and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512047
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Foreign Technology Adoption as a Flying Propeller
Hu, Yunfang; Kunieda, Takuma; Nishimura, Kazuo; Wang, Ping - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model of foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign technology adoption, incorporating adoption barriers, international technology spillover, and relative price advantages. A higher FDI conversion efficacy, a lower adoption barrier, or a stronger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250176
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Foreign Direct Investment, Trade and Real Exchange Rate Linkages in Developing Countries
Goldberg, Linda S. - 1997
We investigate the relationships among trade, foreign direct investment and the real exchange rate between a set of Southeast Asian and Latin American countries and both the United States and Japan. Foreign direct investment by both Japan and the United States to the Southeast Asian countries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472472
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African Export Successes : Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations
Easterly, William - 2010
driven mostly by global commodity prices. In order to better understand the determinants of export success in Africa we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462060
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The Contribution of Chinese FDI to Africa's Pre Crisis Growth Surge
Weisbrod, Aaron - 2011
In the 3 years before the 2008 Financial Crisis, GDP growth in sub Saharan Africa (averaged over individual economies … small, portion of the elevated growth in sub Saharan Africa in the three years before the Financial Crisis and also in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461114
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The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World
Nunn, Nathan - 2010
We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven...
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Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households? Evidence using Nutrition Data for Africa
Brown, Caitlin S. - 2017
assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453666
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The Unofficial Economy in Africa
Porta, Rafael La - 2011
We examine the productivity of informal firms (those that are not registered with the government) in 24 African countries using field work and World Bank firm level data. We find that productivity jumps sharply if we compare small formal firms to informal firms, and rises rapidly with the size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461836
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Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in China : A Political Economy Approach
Branstetter, Lee G. - 1999
We view the political process in China as trading off the social benefits of increased trade and foreign direct investment, against the losses incurred by state-owned enterprises due to such liberalization. A model drawing on Grossman and Helpman (1994, 1996) is used to derive an empirically...
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