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Multinational corporation affiliates, backward linkages, and productivity spillovers in developing and emerging economies : evidence and policy making

Jordaan, Jacob A.; Douw, Willem; Qiang, Christine Zhenwei - 2020

Recent research on productivity spillovers from affiliates of multinational corporations in developing and emerging … transmitting productivity spillovers. This finding has important policy implications, given that host economy governments often … dissemination, and the materialization of productivity spillovers among domestic firms. These findings are used to identify the main …

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Do management interventions last? : evidence from India

Bloom, Nicholas; Mahajan, Aprajit; McKenzie, David J.; … - 2018

Beginning in 2008, the authors conducted a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving firms (Bloom and others 2013). In 2017 the plants were revisited and the authors found three main results. First, while about half of the management practices...

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Does FDI Bring Good Jobs to Host Countries?

Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska - 2012

productivity of the host country. Existence of positive externalities associated with FDI may suggest that government intervention … to maximize the productivity benefits by assisting local firms with becoming suppliers to foreign affiliates by extending …

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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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What to Do When Foreign Direct Investment Is Not Direct or Foreign : FDI Round Tripping

Aykut, Dilek - 2017

As globalization has intensified, multinational enterprises' investments have become a sophisticated set of financial transactions that are difficult to monitor and classify by the home and host countries. In some cases, what is classified as foreign direct investment is rather "indirect foreign...

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Can the Knowledge Capital Model Explain Foreign Investment in Services? : The Case of Singapore

Chellaraj, Gnanaraj - 2015

Singapore has been a powerful magnet for foreign direct investment and in recent years has also made significant investments abroad, especially in developing countries and increasingly in services. This paper analyzes the determinants of Singapore's investment using the Knowledge-Capital Model...

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Have robots grounded the flying geese? : evidence from greenfield FDI in manufacturing

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Nayyar, Gaurav - 2019

For decades, manufacturers around the world have outsourced production to countries with lower labor costs. However, there is a concern that robotization in high-income countries will challenge this shifting international division of labor known as the "flying geese" paradigm. Greenfield foreign...

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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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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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Doing Business in Lao PDR : Constraints to Productivity

World Bank Group - 2018

. This report also analyzes firm level productivity based on the data available and finds that Lao PDR's enterprises are not … productive compared to firms in neighboring countries. For example, the median level of labor productivity is lower in Lao PDR … than in either Cambodia or Vietnam, and labor productivity in the most productive firms is significantly lower in Lao PDR …

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