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COVID-19 age-mortality curves are flatter in developing countries
Demombynes, Gabriel Maurice Gaudefroy - 2020
differences in population age structure. In this paper, COVID-19 mortality rates are calculated for each age group by dividing the … number of COVID-19 deaths by the underlying population. The resulting age-mortality curves are flatter in countries with … lower incomes. In HICs, the COVID-19 mortality rate for those ages 70-79 is 12.6 times the rate for those ages 50-59. In …
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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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Does FDI Bring Good Jobs to Host Countries?
Javorcik, Beata - 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 the Bank receives from the Swedish community. Sweden's exemplary support for the International Development Association (IDA) has an importance and a significance beyond the...
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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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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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FDI Spillovers and High-Growth Firms in Developing Countries
Reyes, Jose Daniel - 2017
This paper evaluates the heterogeneous impact of spillovers from multinational corporations (MNCs) to domestic enterprises in the developing world. It empirically investigates two transmission channels of knowledge spillovers. First, direct contractual linkages between indigenous firms and MNCs....
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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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The Political Economy of Direct Dividend Transfers in Resource-Rich Countries : A Theoretical Consideration
McGuirk, Eoin - 2016
The acceleration of natural resource discoveries across many parts of the developing world has highlighted the urgent need for solutions to the mismanagement of windfalls that has blighted many countries over the past half-century. One proposal involves istributing annually a share of resource...
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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
The main focus of the paper is the measurement of the potential for externalities related to foreign direct investment. A series of novel proxies are drawn from the Enterprise Survey database of the World Bank-IFC and tested against hypotheses considered in the foreign direct investment...
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