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African leaders : their education abroad and FDI flows
Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2010
they become leaders. -- FDI ; leaders' educational level ; return migration ; Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312932
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Tradable immigration quotas
Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011
International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate poverty at a global level. When a given host country allows more immigrants in, this creates costs and benefits for that particular country as well as a positive externality for all those (individuals and governments)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307974
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Tradable refugee-admission quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian crisis and the new European agenda on migration
Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas; Rapoport, Hillel - 2015
The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347130
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Tradable refugee-admission quotas and EU asylum policy
Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014
The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We show that the proposed system can go a long way towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442315
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The effects of Israeli policies on Palestinians' basic needs in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
Parigi, Marta; Oskorouchi, Hamid R. - 2024
This study quantitatively evaluates conclusions of NGOs, UN agencies, and the International Court of Justice denouncing the purported practices of apartheid by Israel. We gauge the impact of Israeli policies on Palestinian basic needs using a bespoke index and a novel instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637284
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Preferential market access into the Chinese market : how good is it for Africa?
Co, Catherine Yap; Dimova, Ralitza - 2014
In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237668
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What drives attitudes toward immigrants in Sub-Saharan Africa? : evidence from Uganda and Senegal
Becker, Malte; Krüger, Finja; Heidland, Tobias - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014462137
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Can you teach old dragons new tricks? : FDI and innovation activity in Chinese state-owned enterprises
Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Gong, Yundan (contributor);  … - 2006
. -- Innovation ; FDI ; state owned enterprises ; spillovers ; competition ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003465722
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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M. (contributor); Li, Haizheng (contributor) - 2007
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003577801
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Interprovincial migration in China : the effects of investment and migrant networks
Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, … - 2007
Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth … China, especially during the 1990s. However, other important economic and socio-political determinants of interprovincial … gravity model of interprovincial migration in China that includes as explanatory variables: migrant networks in the …
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