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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246176
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011843835
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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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Learning or Leaning : Persistent and Transitory Growth Spillovers from FDI
Davies, Ronald B. - 2016
Using firm-level data for Jordan, the paper estimates the extent to which growth spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to local firms stem from persistent learning externalities (i.e., they endure even after foreign investment leaves as knowledge has been transferred to local firms) or...
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Internationally linked firms, integration reforms and productivity : evidence from Pakistan
Lovo, Stefania; Varela, Gonzalo - 2020
This paper examines productivity dynamics and drivers for Pakistani firms listed in the stock exchange (publicly listed …, to assess their impact on productivity downstream. The paper presents three main findings. First, the productivity of … productive firms, and their productivity grows after being acquired. Exporters tend to exhibit productivity growth after becoming …
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Capital allocation in developing countries
David, Joel M.; Cusolito, Ana Paula; Venkateswaran, Venky; … - 2019
that is correlated with firm size/productivity and one that is essentially permanent to the firm. The paper reports a broad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121180
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Privacy by Design : Current Practices in Estonia, India, and Austria
World Bank Group - 2018
Digital identification systems, integrated with civil registration, can play a transformational role across many development areas, such as financial inclusion, expanding access to services and social safety nets, and effective humanitarian response. But while the opportunity is great, so are...
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