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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2007

recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and … investment ; globalization ; outsourcing ; technology ; capability ; energy ; trade flows ; inequality and poverty ; technology …

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The social impact of globalization in the developing countries

Lee, Eddy (contributor); Vivarelli, Marco (contributor) - 2006

In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003253463

Corruption, networking and foreign ownership : recent evidence from CEE countries

Pal, Sarmistha - 2013

The present paper argues that the effect of corruption on foreign ownership is not necessarily linear and depends on the level of host corruption. So long as the expected returns from foreign investments exceed its expected costs, higher host corruption will be associated with higher foreign...

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Unions and collective bargaining in Sub-Saharan Africa : some insights from quantitative studies

Jirjahn, Uwe - 2025

and globalization entail serious threats to workers' unionization. The increasing influence of China and neoliberal policy …

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Revisiting cross-country poverty convergence in the developing world with a special focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

Ouyang, Yusi; Shimeles, Abebe; Thorbecke, Erik - 2018

The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits cross-country poverty convergence using data from the...

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Globalization, productivity growth, and labor compensation

Dreger, Christian; Fourné, Marius; Holtemöller, Oliver - 2023

We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution. To account for endogeneity, we construct a leave-out measure for international trade integration for country-industry pairs using international input-output tables. First, we...

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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective

Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021

Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has...

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Globalization and inequality in Latin America

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - 2023

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality. …

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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013

countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …

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Do foreign owners favor short-term profit? : evidence from Germany

Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - 2014

foreign countries; rather, results point in the direction of more general features of corporate globalization. …

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