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Foreign Direct Investment in East Asia and Latin America: Is there a People's Republic of China Effect?
Chantasasawat, Busakorn; Fung, Kwok Chiu; Iizaka, Hitomi; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004
In recent years, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has emerged as the largest recipient of foreign direct investment … authors explore this important research and policy issue empirically. They focus our studies on East and Southeast Asia as … well as Latin America, and control for the standard determinants of their inward direct investment. They then add PRC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357911
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Methodologies for Regional Programs and Projects: Strategy and Programming
Madhur, Srinivasa - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This presentation discusses the Asian Development Bank's (ADB's) Regional Cooperation and Integration (RCI) Strategy. The RCI strategy includes a results-based monitoring framework to monitor progress in each pillar. The framework identifies broad outcomes to be achieved, performance monitoring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009292895
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Country Program Evaluation: Trinidad and Tobago (2000-2008) Title: Evaluación del programa de país: Trinidad y Tobago (2000-2008)
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …; … - 2009
The 2000-2008 Country Program Evaluation (CPE) for Trinidad and Tobago (RE-353) was conducted by the Office of Evaluation and Oversight to inform the Board's discussion with IDB Management regarding future strategy for each country. It involved three weeks of missions to both Trinidad and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673378
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Revisiting Economic Growth in Colombia: A Microeconomic Perspective
Arjona, Marcela Meléndez; Harker, Arturo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
particular spin to this conclusion by showing that investment decisions at the firm level are also explained by the restoration …, perhaps the most relevant result is the confirmation that in Colombia, investment decisions are negatively affected by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943928
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Does Financial Liberalization Improve the Allocation of Investment?: Micro Evidence from Developing Countries
Galindo, Arturo José; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Weiss, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
also developed a summary index of the efficiency of investment allocation that measures whether, and to what extent …, investment funds are going to firms with a higher marginal return to capital. Then it was examined the relationship between this … has led to an increase in the efficiency with which investment funds are allocated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944537
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The Emergence of China: Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean Title: El impacto de China: Oportunidades y retos para América Latina y el Caribe
Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés; Devlin, Robert; … - Inter-American Development Bank
China's size, rapid growth, external openness, and trade performance have led to varying perceptions among the countries of Latin America: Is China a potential new market, a potent new competitor, or both? This book assesses the near-term strategic implications of China's economic performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772418
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The Asian Industrial Policy Experience: Implications for Latin America
Noland, Marcus; Pack, Howard - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
The paper aims to communicate to the Latin American audience both factual evidence regarding the Asian experience, and the possible implications of this historical legacy for contemporary Latin American economic development strategies.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009193712
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On the Determinants of the Wage Differential in Latin America and East Asia: Openness, Technology Transfer and Labor Supply
Avalos, Antonio; Savvides, Andreas - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
A labor supply and demand model is presented where three main determinants of the wage differential are investigated: trade openness, technology transfer and labor supply. Findings show that increased trade openness is related to reductions in wage differentials.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009193892
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Argentina's Currency Crisis: Lessons for Asia
Spiegel, Mark M. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
the failure of Argentina's exchange rate arrangement provides important lessons for potential pegged regimes in Asia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009198379
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Explaining the Real Exchange Rate During Sudden Stops Period: Evidence from Asia and Latin America
Terada-Hagiwara, Akiko - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
This paper tries to untangle the causes behind the recent real exchange rate overshooting events with particular attention paid to the Sudden Stop of capital flows, and also to the comparison across the two emerging markets, Asian and Latin America. We examine whether the sudden stop of capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009198707