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concentration in international trade and investment flows. Marginalization is more likely to be explained by domestic policies in … investment flows has declined over the last two decades, whereas the opposite is true among relatively closed economies. Thus …, marginalization is not intrinsic to globalization. Key Words: Globalization, international trade and investment flows concentration. …
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immiserising in the absence of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), may be welfare-enhancing in the presence of foreign-owned firms …
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investors. High levels of non-transparency can greatly retard the amount of foreign investment that a country might otherwise … increases in the level of foreign investment into their country. This increased investment translates into more resources, which …
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Much has been recently written about the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) that has been negotiated by OECD …
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This note discusses capital controls using insights from the trade policy literature. It highlights some key issues that have been neglected in the current international debate on capital controls. Capital is tradable in the same way as many goods and services are. As a result, much of the...
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Are changes in services markets provoking reform, restrictions, or inertia? To address this question, we draw upon a new World Bank-WTO Services Trade Policy Database (STPD) to analyse the services trade policies of 68 economies in 23 subsectors across five broad areas—financial services,...
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Using industry-level R&D and patent data for a sample of 29 countries for the period 2000-2008, we study the importance of international supply linkages for knowledge spillovers. We find a statistically significant effect of supply chains on international knowledge spillovers. We show that...
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