political or bureaucratic power on farmers. agricultural investment decisions. Our main result is that households significantly … increase their investment in land improvement as a result of relatives moving into public office. Connections to office holders … appear to be important for investment because they strengthen de facto land property rights and improve access to off …

development, it is not sufficient. Both trade and foreign direct investment create innovation assymetries hindering lagging … conflict of interest between supporting human capital investment and innovation. If only innovation is supported, the human … capital trap will persist. If mainly human capital investment is pursued, technology levels will fall behind; switching to …

benefit from globalization. This paper focuses on one aspect of globalization ? the liberalization of investment policies …, liberalization has a significant and positive effect on investment. Second, liberalization does not have a direct impact on … multinational employment. By increasing investment and employment from multinational firms, these liberalization programmes …

. In doing so, it considers the main channels of transmission, to focus on international trade, investment, finance and … potential. In future, these countries could also provide resources for investment and technologies for productivity. The …