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Global Growth and Financial Spillovers and the South African Macro-economy
Ncube, Mthuli - 2016
This book offers new quantitative insights into how South African economy reacts to external economic shocks. The analysis includes focusing on economic growth and financial spill over, effects of capital inflows, contrasting the stock market price returns and volatility on economic growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397549
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Multinational Enterprises, Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in Africa : South African Perspectives
Gilroy, Bernard Michael (contributor);  … - 2005
How can Africa, the world's most lagging region, benefit from globalisation and achieve sustained economic growth? Africa needs greater investment by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) to improve competitiveness and generate more growth through positive spill-over effects. Despite the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014014138
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The Impact of International Trade and FDI on Economic Growth and Technological Change
Hofmann, Patricia - 2013
Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016562
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Trade, Development and Political Economy : Essays in Honour of Anne O. Krueger
Lal, Deepak (ed.); Snape, Richard H. (ed.) - 2001
Trade, Development and Political Economy takes fundamental issues in trade and development policy and subjects them to well-based economic analysis in a form that is easily accessible to the non-specialist. Distinguished contributors address some of the following questions: Are critics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054121
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Economic Growth with Equity : Challenges for Latin America
Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo (ed.); Machinea, José Luis (ed.) - 2007
This book analyses the development challenge faced by Latin America at a time at which the concerns for the large inequality in the region are at a peak. This volume focuses on growth-with-equity, and is written by an outstanding group of Latin American and international researchers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054269
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Chile in Transition : Prospects and Challenges for Latin America’s Forerunner of Development
Benedikter, Roland (ed.); Siepmann, Katja (ed.) - 2015
The economic, political and social situation in Chile shows a country in transition. Some observers anticipate a broad “reboot” of the nation. While Chile is still seen by many as an example of progress in South America and of developmental potential in the global South, it faces a complex...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819110
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Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development in China
Fu, Xiaolan - 2004
This volume, based on a series analysis using up-to-date econometric technique, systematically investigates the role that exports and foreign direct investment (FDI) have played in China's development process, and questions the received wisdom that exports and FDI are always an unalloyed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054087
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Vietnam’s Economic Entities in Transition
Sakata, Shozo (ed.) - 2013
During the last two decades, Vietnam has been undergoing a process of deregulating economic activities and integrating … Vietnam's rapid growth over this period. In order to cope with such a socioeconomic and institutional transformation, Vietnam … result, the reorganization of Vietnam's domestic economic entities, such as the equitization of many state-owned enterprises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054325
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Fiscal Decentralization and Development : Experiences of Three Developing Countries in Southeast Asia
Uchimura, Hiroko (ed.) - 2012
An in-depth analysis of the fundamental role that decentralization plays in developing countries, using detailed statistical data to examine the actual fiscal structure between tiers of government, and the effects of decentralization at the local, national and international levels.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106251
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Border Economies in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Ishida, Masami (ed.) - 2013
A group of internationally recognised experts examine the recent trends of cross-border movements of people, goods and economic activity at fifteen major borders in the Greater Mekong Sub-region with the aim of predicting the long terms future for this region.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106379