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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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This paper examines how a range of stability-oriented regulatory policies for banking and insurance are related to selected stability and competition outcomes in these sectors. Based on survey information on financial market regulation, policy indicators for eight areas of prudential banking...
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empirical analysis showing that terms-of-trade and saving/investment behaviour seem to have driven the euro exchange rate over …
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Overseas direct investment by Chinese firms increased eight fold over the past decade, making the country as an …’s ODI stock according to official sources, though it is over-estimated owing to the fact that all investment through third … parties and vehicles appears under this sector, not under the one where the investment is actually made. Correcting for this …
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This paper provides a revised measure of regulatory restrictions on inward foreign direct investment (FDI)for OECD … statutory deviations from "national treatment", i.e. discrimination against foreign investment. When combined with other factors … having an influence on foreign investment decisions, it has proven to be a good predictor of countries’ inward FDI …
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The Austrian economy has benefited substantially from the expansion of economic ties with Central and Eastern Europe, which has provided a significant boost to growth, productivity, competitiveness, profits and (more controversially) aggregate employment. Indeed, among the older EU member...
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This paper provides new measures of restrictions on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) for OECD countries. Several …
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The tertiary education system has been transformed from an elite-oriented system to a system providing tertiary education to a much larger share of each new generation. This re-orientation has contributed to raising education attainment in Belgium. However, in many respects the organisation of...
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This paper constructs indicators of tax burden on FDI in order to review their trends and cross-country patterns. Over the 1990s, the overall tax burden on inward FDI (measured by the effective marginal tax rates) fell by 8 percentage points, reflecting corporate tax reforms in some OECD...
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Globalisation through international trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and international movements of labour is a … human resources from abroad. Given the close links among trade, investment and labour flows, it is important to pursue a …
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