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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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and 10 areas that matter for development. Building on decade-long data collection by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys …
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This paper examines how different establishments performed during the recent global financial crisis, focusing on the role of foreign ownership. The paper investigates how foreign ownership affected establishments' responses to negative economic shocks, using a cross-country panel dataset with...
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As globalization has intensified, multinational enterprises' investments have become a sophisticated set of financial …
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Evidence shows that foreign direct investment can provide many benefits to host countries, including productivity improvements, better jobs, and knowledge transfer. Further, it can serve as a vehicle for transformation of domestic production and better integration with global value chains....
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The 2007-2008 upsurge in agricultural commodity prices gave rise to widespread concern about investors causing a "global land rush" . Large land deals can provide opportunities for better access to capital, transfer of technology, and advances in productivity and employment generation. But they...
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The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …
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projections and scenario analysis. Such forecasting has become increasingly challenging, thanks to the rapid pace of globalization … the world urgently need to see the big picture if they are to deal with the specific challenges and opportunities they …-house researchers and global experts who work on state-of-the-art models related to globalization, technological progress and …
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playing field' would be ineffective and result in destructive conflicts in the World Trade Organization. Lack of progress at …
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, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple …
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