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 …

setup. The export data derive from the IMF Direction of Trade and the COMTRADE databases, while the communication cost data … an important factor in bilateral trade in the region. Communications have a significant negative effect on export … Africa (SSA). Data from 19 exporter countries was used together with communication costs data in a gravity model of trade …

In this paper, we test the Rodrik et al (2004) framework to explain differences in development levels across countries … institutions trump other factors (geography and trade) when we use GDP per capita as an independent variable. When we expand the … dependent variable to include other aspects of development, such as growth and investment, we find that institutions, growth and …

, employment, export partners' growth and terms of trade to estimate price and income elasticities of export demand, total …In this paper, we combine the export-led and import-led growth hypotheses in a growth model in which the importation of … foreign capital goods and the demand elasticities of own export products explain the growth opportunities and the technical …

This paper examines the role of FDI in promoting industrial development, and raises a rather important question: Why …, if FDI is such an important avenue to promote development, is their little evidence on concomitant industrial development … in most developing countries? This chapter takes a look at the evidence on FDI and development and explores some of the …

in developing countries. Building on this analysis, the paper outlines a vision of innovation for development that could … lead to a truly new research programme for innovation studies and the development of successful innovation-for-development …