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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can benefit host countries by facilitating access to sophisticated technologies, good … consequence, countries trying to attract inflows of FDI need to consider what types of industrial policies will increase the … country's attractiveness to foreign firms. Moreover, different types of FDI are of different value for the host country and …
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decades. South East Asia has been part of this development with rapidly increasing inflows of FDI. However, there are large … variations over time and between countries in the region as regard to the policies towards FDI, and in actual inflows of FDI …. This chapter aims at examining the size of FDI in South East Asia and the trends in it. The main determinants of FDI in …
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This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the … differences between South-South FDI and North-South FDI. Among the comparisons of the two types of FDI we try to summarize are be …, wages, and employment, and how these differ across industries. -- FDI ; East Asia ; South-South ; Economic development …
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This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the … differences between South-South FDI and North-South FDI. Among the comparisons of the two types of FDI we try to summarize are be …
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. -- FDI ; Cross-Border Acquisitions ; Multinational enterprises ; Foreign Ownership ; Job Tasks ; Labor Demand ; Skill Groups …
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decades. South East Asia has been part of this development with rapidly increasing inflows of FDI. However, there are large … variations over time and between countries in the region as regard to the policies towards FDI, and in actual inflows of FDI …. This chapter aims at examining the size of FDI in South East Asia and the trends in it. The main determinants of FDI in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010718624
with increasing inflows of FDI and greater foreign participation in their economies. However, Indonesia has been an outlier … within the region, with lower inflows of FDI than other countries, especially in manufacturing, and with lower inflows than … could be expected from its size and other country characteristics. The inflows of FDI that have taken place have benefited …
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Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to accomplish this goal may be to encourage the entrance of foreign firms. They are typically relatively large, with high productivity and good access to foreign markets, and might...
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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has increased in importance over the last decades, globally as well as in Indonesia. We … examine how such inflows of FDI affects value added in Indonesia. The effect is positive: foreign firms generate relatively … high levels of value added and they also seem to have a positive impact on value added in local firms. Moreover, FDI …
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Globalization has increased in recent decades, resulting in structural changes of production and labor demand. This paper examines how the increased global engagement of firms affects the structure of the workforce. We find that the aggregate distribution of occupations in Sweden has become more...
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