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FDI and Growth in East Asia: Lessons for Indonesia
Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2010
Foreign direct investment has been important in the economic growth and global economic integration of developing countries over the last decades. Both Northeast and Southeast Asia, especially the latter, have been part of this development with increasing inflows of FDI and greater foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320290
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South-South FDI and Development in East Asia
Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2011
This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the characteristics of the investing countries and the investments themselves. It also summarizes the findings of studies in individual countries of the effects of these investments. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320352
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FDI and Growth in East Asia : Lessons for Indonesia
Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2010
Foreign direct investment has been important in the economic growth and global economic integration of developing countries over the last decades. Both Northeast and Southeast Asia, especially the latter, have been part of this development with increasing inflows of FDI and greater foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137268
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South-South FDI and Development in East Asia
Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2012
This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the characteristics of the investing countries and the investments themselves. It also summarizes the findings of studies in individual countries of the effects of these investments. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014170039
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The Dynamics of Offshoring and Institutions
Heyman, Fredrik; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - 2012
, little is known about the impact of institutional quality on offshoring. This is surprising, given that offshoring has become … between institutional quality and offshoring. The results suggest that weak institutions are negatively related to offshoring … in general and to offshoring of R&D-intensive goods in particular. Furthermore, firms that are able to establish long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320385
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Chinese Aid and Local Ethnic Identification
Isaksson, Ann-Sofie - 2020
Recent empirical evidence suggests that Chinese development finance may be particularly prone to elite capture and patronage spending. If aid ends up in the pockets of political elites and their ethno-regional networks, this may exacerbate ethnic grievances and contribute to ethnic mobilization....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615404
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Chinese Aid to Africa: Distinguishing Features and Local Effects
Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2020
Drawing on our recent work on local effects of Chinese development projects in Africa, this review article highlights a number of distinguishing features of Chinese aid, and discusses how these may translate into local aid impacts that differ from those of other donors. Unlike aid from other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615405
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Aid and Institutions: Local Effects of World Bank Aid on Perceived Institutional Quality in Africa
Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Durevall, Dick - 2021
Motivated by the lack of sub-national empirical evidence on the relationship between aid and institutional development, this study explores the local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in African aid receiving countries. We combine geo-referenced data on the subnational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615459
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The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995–-2006: Some Descriptive Statistics
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to report some initial findings based on the WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set (Ver. 2.0) that the authors have compiled for the World Bank. The data set contains approximately 28 000 observations on the workings of the Dispute Settlement (DS) system. It covers all 351...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320040
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Trading Profiles and Developing Country Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System
Francois, Joseph; Horn, Henrik; Kaunitz, Niklas - 2008
It has been alleged since its inception that the WTO Dispute Settlement (DS) mechanism is biased against developing countries, as manifested in e.g. allegedly too low rates of dispute initiation. To shed light on this issue, this study analyses the determinants of developing country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320177