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investment is complimentary but insignificant. This weak relationship explains the fact that domestic investment performance is …
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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...
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We study how competition and corporate governance may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. We … census data. Our results suggest that investment is better explained by the Dominance Index, a Mexican measure of … ownership and control), and market competition may encourage investment decisions. Furthermore they suggest an inverse …
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This paper aims to investigate the relationship between physical infrastructure and economic development of Pakistan. A composite index of physical infrastructure has been constructed through Principal Component Analysis. This has been done by taking into account three different dimensions of...
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savings and investment, achieved by these economies. The accumulation story is conceptualised here in Kaldorian terms and … emphasises the investment-profits-savings nexus. The essential argument is that high corporate savings and investments in …
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retain several legal advantages in their homelands, including unrestricted residency and easy access to investment … by US$1.44 billion, but increases gross capital formation and foreign direct investment by US$12 trillion and US$828 …
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There are competing views of how HIV/AIDS affects saving, and to a lesser extent, investment. One argument is that … translate through to investment. In fact, the absolute value of the impact the disease has on investment is considerably reduced … saving would necessarily have on investment is negated. …
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private investment: contrary to mainstream consensus where-in, English common-law countries are better at championing private …
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intermediary channels of depth, efficiency, activity and size. Findings show that legal origin matters in the finance-investment … nexus; though its ability to explain aggregate investment dynamics only through financial intermediary channels is limited …
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Many of the present difficulties of the world economy have been blamed on the two oil-price explosions of the 1970s. Professor Chichilnisky shows that, at least in the case of the oil-importing developing countries, the negative effects have been overestimated. In fact, in some respects the oil...
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