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Do Capital Inflows Boost Growth in Developing Countries? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Calderï¿½n, Cï¿½sar - 2015

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Sovereign credit ratings, relative risk ratings, and private capital flows

De, Supriyo; Mohapatra, Sanket; Ratha, Dilip K. - 2020

This paper examines the influence of sovereign credit ratings and relative risk ratings on private capital flows to 26 emerging and frontier market economies, using quarterly data for 1998-2017. A dynamic panel regression model is used to estimate the relationship between ratings and capital...

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The voice of foreign direct investment : foreign investor policy preferences and experiences in developing countries

Saurav, Abhishek; Kuo, Ryan - 2020

This paper provides insights to inform government efforts to attract and retain foreign direct investment, by analyzing the results of a survey of more than 2,400 affiliates of multinational enterprises across 10 middle-income countries. The paper explores corporate perspectives and...

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Japan's Role in Africa

Wolfowitz, Paul - 2005

Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, discussed how Japan's success is an inspirational example for developing … countries. Now, Japan is the second largest shareholder in the World Bank and a valued partner. Today the world is challenged to … help the poor countries achieve the millennium development goals and that Japan and the World Bank have a common set of …

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Does FDI Bring Good Jobs to Host Countries?

Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska - 2012

This study examines whether jobs created as a result of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows can be considered to be good jobs both from the worker's and the country's perspective. For the worker, such jobs are likely to pay higher wages than jobs in indigenous firms in developing countries,...

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Development--The Need for New Directions

Woods, George D. - 1967

George D. Woods, President of the World Bank Group, spoke of his appreciation of the splendid support and encouragement …

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Retention and Expansion of Foreign Direct Investment : Political Risk and Policy Responses

World Bank Group - 2019

Due to its recognized benefits, most countries today regardless of their level of development compete for and dedicate significant resources to attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). Capturing the full positive spillovers of FDI is a long-term process and requires regulatory certainty and...

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FDI Spillovers and High-Growth Firms in Developing Countries

Reyes, José-Daniel - 2017

enterprises in the developing world. It empirically investigates two transmission channels of knowledge spillovers. First, direct …

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Measuring the Determinants of Backward Linkages from FDI in Developing Economies : Is it a Matter of Size?

Sánchez-Martín, Miguel Eduardo - 2015

. A series of novel proxies are drawn from the Enterprise Survey database of the World Bank-IFC and tested against …

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Investment Policy and Promotion Diagnostics and Tools : Maximizing the Potential Benefits of Foreign Direct Investment for Competitiveness and Development

World Bank Group - 2017

This paper presents a bird's eye overview of the investment policy and promotion (IPP) logical framework developed by the trade and competitiveness global practice of the WBG to address the challenge of how countries can use foreign direct investment (FDI) to advance their economic development....

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