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Does the World Bank have any impact on human development of the poorest countries? Some preliminary evidence from Africa
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005
In an attempt to better understand the impact of the World Bank on human development in poor countries, we use cross-country data on African countries, for the 1990-2002 period, to examine this relationship. The coefficient estimates of our parsimonious fixed-effects models indicate that while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784766
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Foreign direct investment and pollution havens : evaluating the evidence from China
Dean, Judith Myrle (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002125291
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Joint Liability Lending and the Rise and Fall of China's Township and Village Enterprises
Park, Albert; Shen, Minggao - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001
Using data from a recent survey of bank and enterprise managers and government officials in southern China, we present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784788
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Chinese state’s economic cooperation related investment: An investigation of its direction and some implications for outward investment
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Co, Catherine Yap - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2009
cooperation related investment (ECI). While there are suggestions that it is an extension of China‟s soft power aimed at … resource richness is not economically meaningful. Finally, while there is some support for the popular wisdom that China … any, for the hypotheses that China favours doing business with countries where political rights are limited. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529009
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Dealing with the Bad Loans of the Chinese Banks
Bonin, John P.; Huang, Yiping - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001
Chinese banks suffer from serious financial fragility manifested by high proportions of non-performing loans and low capital-adequacy ratios. A key policy introduced recently by the Chinese government to reduce financial risks is the establishment of four asset management companies (AMCs) for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677622
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A Refinancing Model of Decentralization with Empirical Evidence from China
Park, Albert; Shen, Minggao - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
information in response to market signals. In China, however, banks centralized lending authority following financial reforms in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005489888