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According to the consensus view in growth and development economics, cross country differences in per-capita income largely reflect differences in countries' total factor productivity. We argue that this view has powerful implications for patterns of capital flows: everything else equal,...
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specialized in the source country. Consequently, FDI investors would make investment, both larger, and of higher quality (namely … the domestic investment and output growth regressions relative to the portfolio equity flow and international loan … coefficients, reflect a more significant role for FDI in the domestic investment process than other types of capital inflows …
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) is observed to be a predominant form of capital flows to low and middle income … productive investment in the presence of asymmetric information between the managing owners of firms and other portfolio … stakeholders. We emphasize the crucial role played by FDI in sustaining equity-financed capital investment for economies plagued by …
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Since 1950, the economies of East Asia grew rapidly but received little inter-national capital, while Latin America received considerable international capitaleven as their economies stagnated. The literature typically explains the failureof capital to flow to high growth regions as resulting...
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This paper explores the relationship between investment and political violence through several possible mechanisms …. Investment as a predictor of future violence implies that low private sector investment today provides a robust indicator of high … violence tomorrow. "Rent-capture" or predation asserts that investment increases violence by motivating extortion by insurgents …
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motivates rebel violence? Panel data on political violence in the Philippines distinguish government from rebel attacks, which … we link to private investment across 70 provinces. To formally explore these data we expand an established theory of … asymmetric substate conflict -the "information-centric" model, adding firms, investment, taxation and predation (i …
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The finding of Feldstein and Horioka (1980) that countriesf investment rates are highly correlated with their national … and investment in a sample that includes not only 14 industrialized countries, but also 50 developing countries. The paper … developing countries, and higher after 1973 than before. Our interpretation of the saving-investment evidence is that the …
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prices with investment and production. We use the model to calculate theoretical covariances between investment, the current … flows, exchange rates, investment, and the terms of trade are critically dependent on optimal portfolio allocations and the …
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increases in domestic savings rates induce approximately equal increases in domestic rates of investment. New estimates for the … post-OPEC period 1974-79 imply that each extra dollar of domestic saving increases domestic investment by approximately 85 … flows than to their short-run behavior. Coefficient estimates based on annual variations in savings and investment are …
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features of the world at present are the low rates of investment and growth in some of the richest countries, whose surpluses … account for about half of the US deficit. The result is that financial capital is flowing out of countries with low investment …
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