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Education systems and foreign direct investment : does external efficiency matter?

Miningou, Elise Wendlassida; Tapsoba, Sampawende … - 2017

This paper examines the effect of the efficiency of the education system on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). First, it focuses on the external efficiency and applies a frontier-based measure as a proxy of the ability of countries to optimally convert the average years of schooling into income...

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Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ghura, Dhaneshwar - 1995

The paper investigates empirically the determinants of economic growth for a large sample of sub-Saharan African countries during 1981-92. The results indicate that (i) an increase in private investment has a relatively large positive impact on per capita growth; (ii) growth is stimulated by...

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How do climate shocks affect the impact of FDI, ODA and remittances on economic growth?

Drabo, Alassane - 2021

The three main financial inflows to developing countries have largely increased during the last two decades, despite the large debate in the literature regarding their effects on economic growth which is not yet clear-cut. An emerging literature investigates the dependence of their effects on...

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FDI Spillovers, Financial Markets and Economic Development

Sayek, Selin - 2003

This paper examines the role financial markets play in the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic development. We model an economy with a continuum of agents indexed by their level of ability. Agents can either work for the foreign company or undertake entrepreneurial...

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A Survey of Economic Policies and Macroeconomic Performance in Chile and Colombia, 1970-95

Clavijo, Sergio - 1995

This survey describes the timing and main macroeconomic results of the ambitious structural reforms adopted by Chile in the middle and late 1970s and by Colombia almost a decade later in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These reforms have enabled both countries to maintain vigorous real growth...

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The leap of the tiger : how Malaysia can escape the middle-income trap

Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2015

-2010. Malaysia’s real income per capita increased to 26 percent of the U.S. level in 2010 from 20 percent in 1970. Despite relatively … strong growth and a substantial improvement in export sophistication, Malaysia’s total factor productivity lagged behind that … of Korea and Taiwan Province of China. We argue that what characterizes their experience in contrast to Malaysia’s is the …

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Effectiveness of fiscal incentives for R&D : quasi-experimental evidence

Guceri, Irem; Liu, Li - 2017

With growing academic and policy interest in research and development (R and D) tax incentives, the question about their effectiveness has become ever more relevant. In the absence of an exogenous policy reform, the simultaneous determination of companies' tax positions and their R and D...

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The Missing Link Between Financial Constraints and Productivity

Moreno Badia, Marialuz - 2009

The global financial crisis has reopened the debate on the potential spillover effects from the financial sector to the real economy. This paper adds to that debate by providing new evidence on the link between finance and firm-level productivity, focusing on the case of Estonia. We contribute...

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Knowledge spillovers from superstar tech-firms : the case of Nokia

Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad; … - 2021

Do workers hired from superstar tech-firms contribute to better firm performance? To address this question, we analyze the effects of tacit knowledge spillovers from Nokia in the context of a quasi-natural experiment in Finland, the closure of Nokia's mobile device division in 2014 and the...

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The spending challenge of achieving the SDGs in South Asia : lessons from India

García-Escribano, Mercedes; Tewodaj Mogues; Moszoro, … - 2021

South Asia has experienced significant progress in improving human and physical capital over the past few decades. Within the region, India has become a global economic powerhouse with enormous development potential ahead. To foster human and economic development, India has shown a strong...

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