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Going Global : Expanding Offshore Wind to Emerging Markets

Energy Sector Management Assistance Program - 2019

For many years, offshore wind was the expensive cousin of onshore wind with generation costs in the range of USD 150 to USD 200 per megawatt hour (MWh). This changed dramatically between 2016 and 2017 when a series of competitive tenders in Europe witnessed strike prices fall below USD 100/MWh,...

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Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology

Miguélez, Ernest - 2016

examines the influence exerted by skilled diasporas in fostering cross-country co-inventorship as well as R and D offshoring …

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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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Global Scaling Up Sanitation Project : Global Learning Strategy

Frischmuth, Christiane - 2008

The purpose of this learning strategy is to develop a structured process of generating, sharing, capturing, and disseminating knowledge about what works in scaling up and sustaining sanitation programs. The authors are undertaking this learning process in order to enable evidence-based decisions...

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Determinants of participation in manufacturing GVCs in Africa : the role of skills, human capital endowment and migration

Yaméogo, Nadège Désirée; Jammeh, Kebba - 2019

This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa … skills and manufacturing global value chains are available for 19 subsectors was constructed. A fixed-effect gravity model …; investing in the quality of human capital; and promoting intraregional skills mobility …

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Positioning FYR Macedonia for the Global Economy : The Impact of Reforms and Investment Promotion in the Automotive Components Manufacturing Sector

World Bank Group - 2017

European markets and world-class enterprises-has become a political and strategic economic objective of the highest priority …

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Africa in manufacturing global value chains : cross-country patterns in the dynamics of linkages

Abreha, Kaleb; Lartey, Emmanuel; Mengistae, Taye; … - 2020

Africa's linkages in manufacturing global value chains are reasonably high compared with other developing regions. Still, linkage rates have declined steeply in recent years in non-resource rich countries in the region although they have increased sharply in countries that are rich in natural...

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What investors want : perceptions and experiences of multinational corporations in developing countries

Kusek, Peter; Silva, Andrea - 2018

This paper discusses the results of a survey of multinational corporations with affiliates in developing countries. The paper explores corporate perspectives and decision making across the stages of the investment cycle: attraction, entry and establishment, operations and expansion, linkages...

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Conceptual aspects of global value chains : World Development Report 2020 background paper

Antràs, Pol - 2020

The paper offers an overview of some key conceptual aspects associated with the rise of global value chains (GVCs). It outlines a series of alternative interpretations and definitions of what the rise of GVCs entails, and it traces the implications of these alternative conceptualizations for the...

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Green Incentives for Climate Competitive Industries : A Practitioner's Handbook

World Bank Group - 2016

-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource … energy-efficiency issues as this is the particular focus of the World Bank's Climate Competitive Industries program, and is …

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