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Service trade liberalization as a handmaiden of competitiveness in manufacturing : an industrialized or developing country issue?

Langhammer, Rolf J. (contributor) - 2006

This paper discusses the issue whether developing countries forego chances in world manufactured markets by protecting intermediate services against market entry of new suppliers. By scanning the empirical literature on effective rates of protection (ERP), the evidence is supportive. Yet, it...

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Foreign direct investment and economic growth in developing countries : how relevant are host-country and industry characteristics?

Nunnenkamp, Peter (contributor); Spatz, Julius (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Economic policy, institutional development, and income growth : how Arab countries compare with other developing countries

Nunnenkamp, Peter (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Green gifts from abroad? : FDI and firms' green management

Kannen, Peter; Semrau, Finn Ole; Steglich, Frauke - 2021

Improvements of firms' environmental performance crucially determine the speed of a country's green economic transformation. In this paper, we investigate whether firms with foreign ownership are more likely to adopt 'green' management practices, which determine the capability to monitor and...

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Government ideology in donor and recipient countries : does political proximity matter for the effectiveness of aid?

Dreher, Axel; Minasyan, Anna; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013

Political proximity between donor and recipient governments may impair the effectiveness of aid by encouraging favoritism. By contrast, political misalignment between donor and recipient governments may render aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and giving rise to incentive...

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More development, less emigration to OECD countries : identifying inconsistencies between cross-sectional and time-series estimates of the migration hump

Bencek, David; Schneiderheinze, Claas - 2019

Comparing the emigration rates of countries at different stages of economic development, an inverse u-shape emerges. Although merely based on cross-sectional evidence, the “migration hump” is often treated as a causal relationship. Since the peak is located at rather high per capita incomes...

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Climatic conditions, cultural diversity, and labor productivity

Gundlach, Erich; Matus-Velasco, Ximena - 2000

Countries with the highest labor productivity overwhelmingly lie in the world's temperate climatic zones far away from … correlated with labor productivity after other variables are taken into account. We find that climatic conditions do not have a … significant impact on labor productivity once we control for factor accumulation and cultural diversity within countries. Our …

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Estimating the aggregate agricultural supply response : a survey of techniques and results for developing countries

Thiele, Rainer - 2000

For many low-income countries, the impact of structural reforms on economic growth and poverty alleviation crucially depends on the response of aggregate agricultural supply to changing incentives. Despite its policy relevance, the size of this parameter is still largely unknown. This paper...

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