The present study investigates into the impact of trade, foreign investment, and technology on three different employment patterns in India’s organized manufacturing sector. These employment patterns cover three disadvantage categories of workers viz., women vis-à-vis men workers, contract...

We examine the relationship between stock returns and foreign investment in Brazil, and find that the inflows of foreign investment boosted the returns from 1995 to 2005. There was a strong contemporaneous correlation, although not Granger-causality. Foreign investment along with the exchange...

This paper analyzes the behavior of FDI in South Asian countries using panel data for the period 1970-2004. We applied fixed effects model to identify the factors that determine FDI inflows. The analysis shows that GDP, trade openness, real exchange rate, labor force and health expenditures...

This paper has the goal of analysing the locational aspects of german investment in Portugal, focusing on the relations between territories and different types of economic activities. Our main focus of analysis will be two surveys made to german companies in Portugal by the Portuguese-German...

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...

The paper critically evaluates investment climate in Pakistan. It covers incentives given by the government to domestic and foreign investors. Special emphasis is placed on identifying the barriers that discourage investment in Pakistan. Major impediments include high doing business cost,...

This research article was championed as a way of providing discourses pertaining to the concept of "Critical Realism (CR)" approach, which is amongst many othe forms of competing postmodern philosophical concepts for the engagement of dialogical discourses in the area of established econometric...

This paper attempts to assess the impact of treatment effect or programme applying difference in difference (DD) approach. This study also identifies that the DD estimators are biased under certain conditions.