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Growth spillover effects and regional development patterns : the case of Chinese provinces
Luo, Xubei - 2005
"The author discusses regional development patterns in China and examines effective ways of using development aid to …
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Indigenous Knowledge : The East Africa-South Asia Learning Exchange - An Example of South-South Cooperation
World Bank - 2012
-regional partnership between East Africa and South Asia seeking to integrate indigenous knowledge and practices into Bank supported … operations. The aim was to leverage the experience of IK good practices from South Asia into Bank supported projects in East … Asia and Africa for centuries; similarly, local healers have used medicinal plants in India and Tanzania to treat common …
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Trade Matters
World Bank - 2015
Trade is essential for Caribbean countries development and poverty reduction. Given their small market size, they are dependent on exports to produce manufactured products at efficient scale. And given their natural amenities, they rely on tourism as a major spur to economic activity. Trade in...
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Making foreign direct investment work for Sub-Saharan Africa : local spillovers and competitiveness in global value chains
Farole, Thomas - 2014
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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009
"Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 transition economies, the authors test for the effects of globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign...
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The regional dimension of North-South trade-related r&d spillover
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2009
"This paper examines the impact of trade with Japan, North America, and the European Union on technology diffusion and total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed based on industry-specific research and development...
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Local economic structure and growth
Almeida, Rita - 2005
"The author tests how the local economic structure-measured by a region's sector specialization, competition, and diversity-affects the technological growth of manufacturing sectors. Most of the empirical literature on this topic assumes that in the long run more productive regions will attract...
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Does it matter where you come from? : vertical spillovers from foreign direct investment and the nationality of investors
Saggi, Kamal - 2004
foreign investors affects the degree of vertical spillovers from foreign direct investment. Investors' country of origin may … matter for spillovers to domestic producers in upstream sectors (supplying intermediate inputs) in two ways. First, the share … Union (EU) implies that inputs sourced from the EU are subject to a lower tariff than inputs sourced from America or Asia …
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To share or not to share : / Does local participation matter for spillovers from foreign direct investment
Smarzynska, Beata K. - 2003
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Migration, spillovers, and trade diversion : the impact of internationalization on stock market liquidity
Levine, Ross - 2003
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