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Are Capital Flows Fickle? Increasingly? And Does the Answer Still Depend on Type?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2017
According to conventional wisdom, capital flows are fickle. Focusing on emerging markets, this paper asks whether this conventional wisdom still holds in the contemporary world. The results show that, despite recent structural and regulatory changes, much of it survives. FDI inflows are more...
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Tunisia's global integration : a second generation of reforms to boost growth and employment
2009
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China Economic Update, May 2018 : Investing in High-Quality Growth
World Bank Group - 2018
The World Bank Economic Update provides an overview of recent economic and social developments and policies in China. Economic activity in China remains resilient, with GDP growing by 6.9 percent in 2017 and 6.8 percent year on year (yoy) in the first quarter of 2018. Consumption continues to...
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Pakistan : Unlocking Private Sector Growth through Increased Trade and Investment Competitiveness
Rocha, Nadia - 2018
Evidence suggests that Pakistan has the potential for much faster and more diversified economic growth. Energizing trade can help Pakistan to realize its growth potential. Pakistan's inward-oriented trade policies have had the effect of stalling Pakistan's integration into regional and global...
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Serbia's New Growth Agenda : FDI Spillovers
Brussevich, Mariya - 2019
This note examines the relationship between the presence of foreign firms and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of domestic firms (called 'FDI, Foreign Direct Investment, spillovers') in Serbia over the period of 2005-16. The analysis finds evidence of FDI spillovers in Serbia. Domestic...
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Do Capital Inflows Boost Growth in Developing Countries? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Calder�n, C�sar - 2015
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Zambia Second Investment Climate Assessment : Business Environment Issues in Diversifying Growth
World Bank - 2009
This assessment of Zambia's investment climate highlights some of the impediments to growth and export diversification in the current business environment in the country. It is based on an analysis of enterprise survey data specifically collected for the purpose, namely, the World Bank's Zambia...
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Agricultural Transformation and Inclusive Growth : The Malaysian Experience
World Bank Group - 2019
Malaysia did to achieve transformative results in agriculture. It focuses on four main areas in which the Malaysian experience … of value chains; (4) The inclusiveness of Malaysia's agricultural transformation …
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Malaysia's economic growth and transition to high income : an application of the World Bank Long Term Growth Model (LTGM)
Devadas, Sharmila; Guzman, Jorge; Kim, Young Eun; … - 2020
This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and …-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Under the business-as-usual baseline, Malaysia's GDP growth is expected to decline from 4.5 to 2 … capital and slowing growth rates of total factor productivity and human capital. Strong reforms are required for Malaysia to …
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Resource misallocation and productivity gaps in Malaysia
Lay Lian Chuah; Loayza, Norman; Nguyen, Ha - 2018
realization of hypothetical productivity gains, show that Malaysia's gross domestic product growth can potentially increase by 0 …
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