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Foreign Direct Investment in Small Island Developing States
Read, Robert - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007
on the determinants of FDI inflows, incorporating insights drawn from recent research on the determinants of growth in …The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in small island developing states (SIDS) is an issue that has been … empirical economics literature. For SIDS themselves however, FDI represents an important additional source of investment capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001326
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Export Productivity, Finance, and Economic Growth: Are the Southern Engines of Growth Different?
Guariglia, Alessandra; Santos-Paulino, Amelia U. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008
growth and financial development indicators. We then investigate whether the links observed in China, India and Brazil … determinant of export productivity. Moreover, except for Brazil, export productivity plays a positive effect on growth, and so … does financial development for both China and Brazil, but not for India. Finally, in both India and Brazil, FDI is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059815
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EMU Effects on International Trade and Investment.
Flam, H.; Jansson, P. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2000
The partial effect of nominal exchange rate volatility on exports from each EMU member to the rest of the EMU is estimated on annual data for 1967-97, using modern time-series methods.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005625499
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Country Responses to Massive Capital Flows.
Montes, M.F. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1996
The emergence of a select group of developing countries as destinations for private portfolio investments in the 1990s (and the subsequent peso crisis in Mexico in 1994) has rekindled the old issues about the responsabilities and capacities public authorities have with regard to managing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005625523
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Dealing with Capital Inflows. Are There Any Lessons?
Reinhart, C.M.; Dunaway, S. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1996
This paper reviews the experience of a heterogeneous group of developing countries in maintaining macroeconomic stability in the face of heavy capital flows.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005475014
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Post-Conflict Recovery: Does the Global Economy Work for Peace?
Addison, Tony - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005
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Transnational Terrorism as a Spillover of Domestic Disputes in Other Countries
Addison, Tony; Murshed, S. Mansoob - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059989
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Aid as a catalyst for pioneer investment
Collier, Paul - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
I discuss how aid can support growth in small, isolated economies. Small markets frustrate scale economies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854445
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Gendered perspectives on economic growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa
Seguino, Stephanie; Were, Maureen - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
Researchers have linked sub-Saharan Africa.s (SSA) poor growth performance in recent decades to several factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854459
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Dimensions of African inequality
Bigsten, Arne - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014
This paper discusses dimensions of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa and their causes. It starts with a review of the empirical evidence about inequality during the colonial period as well as the post-independence era. Then it discusses the forces that det
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854460