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Foreign Investment in Farmland No Low-hanging Fruit
Chatterjee, Claire Schaffnit - eSocialSciences - 2012
A key driver of foreign investment in land, food security is a challenge mankind has been confronted with in various times and places. Wherever human societies have developed, growing needs have led to increasing arable land, and when land has been limited by nature or wars, food shortages...
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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...
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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillovers:Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector
Sasidharan, Subash - eSocialSciences - 2006
During the recent period, many countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. When MNCs invest in a host country, it is assumed that a part of their technology spills to the host country firms. But empirical studies on spillover effects of FDI have failed to find robust...
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Post-Conflict Recovery: Does the Global Economy Work for Peace?
Addison, Tony - eSocialSciences - 2009
civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than ‘international’ wars. [Discussion Paper No. 2005/05]. …
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The Chinese Aid System
Lancaster, Carol - eSocialSciences - 2009
Questions about Chinese aid—how large it is and how fast it is growing; how decisions are made on how much aid is provided each year; which countries receive it and how much they get; how the aid is managed within the Chinese government and how it is evaluated are explored. The Chinese...
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Global Warming and Agriculture: New Country Estimates Show Developing Countries Face Declines in Agricultural Productivity
Cline, William R - eSocialSciences - 2009
China, India, Brazil, and the poor countries of the tropical belt in Africa and Latin America are discussed. …
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Hepatitis B and the Case of the Missing Women
Oster, Emily - eSocialSciences - 2005
In many Asian countries the ratio of male to female population is higher than in the West -- as high as 1.07 in China … campagins. Hepatitis B is common in many Asian countries, especially China, where some 10 to 15 per cent of the population is … hepatitis B can account for about 45 per cent of the "missing women": around 75 per cent in China, between 20 per cent and 50 …
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China in Africa: A Macroeconomic Perspective
Christensen, Benedicte Vibe - eSocialSciences - 2010
In recent years, China has dramatically expanded its financing and foreign direct investment to Africa. This expansion … has served the political and economic interests of China while providing Africa with much-needed technology and financial … resources. This paper looks at China’s role in Africa from the Chinese perspective. [Working Paper No. 230]. …
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BCIM Economic Corridor: Prospects and Challenges
Sahoo, Pravakar; Bhunia, Abirup; Dhankar, Sonali - eSocialSciences - 2014
Given the commonalities in terms of history, culture, languages and trade complementarity in many cases, the Bangladesh-China …
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India's SEZ Policy
Mårtensson, Ebba; Olsson, Per - eSocialSciences - 2012
Over the last few decades India has emerged as an economic giant. In 2000 the Special Economic Zone (SEZs) policy became part of a strategy to maintain high growth and promote India’s manufacturing sector. However, India’s current SEZ policy does little to strengthen India’s...
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