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Seeds of distrust: Conflict in Uganda
Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011
We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade. Using individual and county-level data, we document causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of ethnic conflicts in 2002-04. We exploit two waves of...
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Migration and cross-border financial flows
Kugler, Maurice; Levintal, Oren; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...
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Cross-Border Trade and FDI in Services
Fillat-Castejon, Carmen; Francois, Joseph Francis; … - 2008
-border trade and FDI in the service sectors. We first develop a consistent analytical framework for the application of the gravity … model jointly to services trade and commercial presence (i.e. FDI), using a composite model of delivery that offers testable …-border imports based on previous FDI inflows. A detailed analysis by individual service sectors highlights business, communication …
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Chinese regional inequality and sectoral foreign direct investment
Azarhoushang, Behzad; Wu, Jennifer Pédussel; Zaroki, … - 2019
world, after the USA, in terms of stock of inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Sustained GDP growth, a high rate of … paper uses Panel Least Squares method to empirically analyze the impact of industrial sector FDI on Chinese regional … inequality during 2003-2013. The resulting analysis shows the connection between FDI in industrial sectors and regional …
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South-South FDI and Development in East Asia
Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2011
This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the … differences between South-South FDI and North-South FDI. Among the comparisons of the two types of FDI we try to summarize are be …
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Characteristics of Colombian inward foreign direct investment
Abreo, Carlos; Carrillo, Eduardo; Pédussel Wu, Jennifer - 2023
The research delves into the determinants of inward FDI to Colombia in the context of economic integration promoted by … the country more attractive to foreign direct investment (FDI), in a framework of fiscal discipline and a stable economic … environment for economic growth, albeit characterised by complex institutional conditions. Government reforms have revitalized FDI …
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Diffusion of Technology and Convergence of Income among Countries
Oz, Sumru - 2014
of foreign direct investment (FDI), considering that the latter is an international technology diffusion channel …. Although FDI appears to be an important channel in the diffusion of technology models theoretically, empirical evidence related … to the effect of FDI on growth is ambiguous. By applying the approach of Ben-David (1996), which focuses on convergence …
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Changing Paradigm of Indo-Japan Relations: Opportunities and Challenges
Rajamohan, P. G.; Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Jacob, Jabin T. - 2008
India's growing economic strength of recent years has seen it adapting its foreign policy to increase its global influence and status and to meet the challenges of the 21st century. In the past few years, New Delhi has expanded its strategic vision, most noticeably in Asia, and has broadened the...
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Trade and investment barriers affecting international production networks in India
Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh Kumar - 2014
This paper analyses the reasons behind India lagging behind East and South East Asian economies in participating in international production networks, on which growth in manufacturing has become increasingly dependent in the contemporary world. Since multinational firms are the main coordinating...
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The linkages between FDI and domestic investment: Unravelling the developmental impact of foreign investment
Ndikumana, Leonce; Verick, Sher - 2007
Despite the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries, these resources have not had a … and employment. In this context, this study analyses the two-way linkages between FDI and domestic investment in Sub …-Saharan Africa. The results suggest that firstly, FDI crowds in domestic investment, and secondly, countries will gain much from …
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