Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 199
Cover Image
The Global Race for Excellence and Skilled Labour: A Status Report
Rollwagen, Ingo; Renkin, Tobias - eSocialSciences - 2012
In this context, higher education as well as research and development (R&D) have long since ceased to be purely the domain of the developed Western economies. Numerous regions of the world, some in the emerging markets in particular – the often-cited BRIC countries – are catching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653328
Cover Image
Trading with Asia’s Giants
Bosworth, Barry - eSocialSciences - 2008
India represents a sharp contrast to China in the small size of its goods trade. Although India’s GDP is a third that … of China, its global trade is only about 12 percent as large while its trade with United States is less than 10 percent … as large. Even more striking, Japan’s trade with India is less than 5 percent of its trade with China. The large U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528184
Cover Image
Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Pakistan: A Sectoral Analysis
Khan, Muhammad Arshad; Khan, Shujaat Ali - eSocialSciences - 2012
This paper establishes an empirical relationship between industry -specific foreign direct investment (FDI) and output under the framework of Granger causality and panel cointegration for Pakistan over the period 1981-2008. The result supports th e evidence of panel cointegration between FDI and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393985
Cover Image
Intellectual Property Protection and the Licensing of Technology to Developing Countries
Kanwar, Sunil - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper, the influence of stronger intellectual property protection on technology transfer into developing countries via licensing is analyzed. Using panel data for the post-TRIPs period 1995-2005, it is found that stronger protection is associated with increased royalty and license fee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008492227
Cover Image
Intellectual Property Protection And Technology Transfer The Case Of Overseas R & D
Kanwar, Sunil - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper investigates whether, in what direction, and to what extent one mode of technology transfer – namely, overseas R&D – is influenced by the strength of intellectual property protection that host nations provide. Using data spanning the period 1977-2004, we find weak...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999351
Cover Image
Bangladesh and Climate Change: Need for a Comprehensive Adaptive Strategy
eSocialSciences; Centre for Trade and Development CENTAD - 2008
The aim of this paper is to examine the effects climate change will have on Bangladesh and also gives some possible solutions for tackling climate change.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170198
Cover Image
Climate Change Mitigation and Green Growth in Developing Asia
Howes, Stephen; Wyrwoll, Paul - eSocialSciences - 2012
related domestic issues, the governments of the People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Viet Nam have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133111
Cover Image
The Role of Technological Complexity and Absorptive Capacity in Internalization Decision
Grover, Arti - eSocialSciences - 2010
Technology transfer costs have a profound influence on the firm’s entry mode into a production sharing relationship. To explore this nexus, they associate technological complexity of the off-shored input with the organizational mode of international production sharing by extending the Antràs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642446
Cover Image
Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining
Wang, Shing-Yi - eSocialSciences - 2012
within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945273
Cover Image
Vital Stats: Parliament in the Monsoon Session 2013
Malik, Kusum; Kala, Mandira; Vaishnava, Saumya - eSocialSciences - 2013
files related to the allocation of coal blocks, border security issues with Pakistan and China, and the current economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945254