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The Behavior of FDI in South Asian Countries
Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Syed, Shabib Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
investment is complimentary but insignificant. This weak relationship explains the fact that domestic investment performance is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110391
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Human Capital Development and FDI in Developing Countries
Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Ahmad, Eatzaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper evaluates the proposition that development of human capital can be instrumental in attracting FDI in developing countries by using fixed effects models on the panel data of 23 selected developing countries and 35 years (1970-2004). For the purpose, we employ two indicators of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111951
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Solutions Pratiques au Problème de Financement des PME au Cameroun
NGUENA, Christian L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The role of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the fight against unemployment and economic activity stimulation is well established. Until today and due to lack of funding, Cameroon suffers of an unsustainable private sector constituted by SMEs at more than 90%; A situation which tends to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260130
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Impact of the business environment on output and productivity in Africa
Bah, El-hadj M.; Fang, Lei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We develop a general equilibrium model to assess the quantitative effects of the business environment, including regulation, crime, corruption, infrastructure and access to finance, on output and total factor productivity (TFP) for 30 Sub-Saharan African countries. The first four dimensions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216352
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Impact of the business environment on output and productivity in Africa
Bah, El-hadj M.; Fang, Lei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Africa is the poorest part of the world and it has the worst environment for long term business success by most standards. Empirical works normally find a negative correlation between income per worker and measures for poor business environment. This paper develops a general equilibrium model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226945
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Foreign ownership, sales to multinationals, and firm efficiency: The Case of Brazil, Morocco, Pakistan, South Africa, and Vietnam
Kinda, Tidiane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Vietnam), we show that foreign firms benefit from a better investment climate, which significantly explains why they are more … the country to assess the importance of vertical spillovers, and it controls for the direct impact of the investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559029
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How Decisions on Investing in Russia are made by German Firms?
Kotov, Denis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
’ investment decision process is run in German firms that are going to Russia. German firms start up their operations in Russia by … establishing a subsidiary (~80%). All information related to the investment decision is collected mainly internally (~80%). 66% of … firms appraise foreign investment using the Discounted Cash Flow technique which incorporates principally macroeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061676
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Central America's Macroeconomic Environment and the Role of the Investment Climate under Free Trade
Gould, David; Loening, Josef L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
competiveness and enhance productivity. An improved investment climate would contribute to both and help to unleash the full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680306
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Trade Policies, Investment Climate,and Exports
Seker, Murat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
improvements in investment climate than the countries with easier foreign market access. Hence attaining a favorable investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876859
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How Changing Investment Climate Impacts on the Foreign Investors Investment Decision: Evidence from FDI in Germany
Kotov, Denis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In the paper we have analysed how the changing investment climate influences investment decisions of German investors …. The basic idea of our concept is a treatment of investment climate conditions as a number of factors which negatively … dynamics) environment for the period from 1998 to 2005 we have examined the impact of the investment climate conditions on FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005626823