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China's Growing Economic Activity in Africa
Besada, Hany - 2008
Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … now Africa's third largest trading partner behind the EU and the US. The Chinese FDI stock in Africa has grown from $49 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771826
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Foreign Direct Investment, Trade and Real Exchange Rate Linkages in Developing Countries
Goldberg, Linda S.; Klein, Michael W. - 2021
We investigate the relationships among trade, foreign direct investment and the real exchange rate between a set of Southeast Asian and Latin American countries and both the United States and Japan. Foreign direct investment by both Japan and the United States to the Southeast Asian countries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230184
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The Contribution of Chinese FDI to Africa's Pre Crisis Growth Surge
Weisbrod, Aaron - 2011
In the 3 years before the 2008 Financial Crisis, GDP growth in sub Saharan Africa (averaged over individual economies … small, portion of the elevated growth in sub Saharan Africa in the three years before the Financial Crisis and also in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119043
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African Export Successes : Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations
Easterly, William - 2014
driven mostly by global commodity prices. In order to better understand the determinants of export success in Africa we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068915
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The Unofficial Economy in Africa
La Porta, Rafael - 2011
We examine the productivity of informal firms (those that are not registered with the government) in 24 African countries using field work and World Bank firm level data. We find that productivity jumps sharply if we compare small formal firms to informal firms, and rises rapidly with the size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129131
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The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World
Nunn, Nathan - 2014
We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068872
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Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households? Evidence Using Nutrition Data for Africa
Brown, Caitlin - 2017
assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942710
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Capital Flows and Economic Growth in the Era of Financial Integration and Crisis, 1990-2010
Aizenman, Joshua - 2011
We investigate the relationship between economic growth and lagged international capital flows, disaggregated into FDI, portfolio investment, equity investment, and short-term debt. We follow about 100 countries during 1990-2010 when emerging markets became more integrated into the international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119605
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International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers
Keller, Wolfgang - 2014
This paper examines how international flows of technological knowledge affect economic performance across industries and firms in different countries. Motivated by the large share of the world's technology investments made by firms that are active across borders, we focus on international trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070643
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Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment
Alfaro, Laura - 2010
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries -- close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment (FDI) occurs between rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759786