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 …

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 …

The Chilean development story of the last two to three decades is a mix of successes in the macro, growth, poverty and … trade fronts but also of failure in reducing chronic inequality of income and wealth. In addition, the current growth …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … contributions to the literature. One is the proposal of a new measure of pro-poor growth, which links growth rates in mean income … dimensions: growth patterns, labour market performances, and social policies. The proposed methodologies are then applied to the …

We examine how institutional and policy reforms affect the relationship between entrepreneurship and growth. We perform … effect of trade reform and entrepreneurship on growth is negative, suggesting that trade reform diminishes the positive … effects of entrepreneurial ability on growth, while the joint effect of financial sector reform and entrepreneurship has a non …