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What Investors Want : Perceptions and Experiences of Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries
Kusek, Peter - 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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Why Multi-Stakeholder Groups Succeed and Fail
Truex, Rory - 2017
Anti-corruption initiatives increasingly use multi-stakeholder groups, comprised of representatives from government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976261
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Assessing the Investment Climate for Climate Investments : A Comparative Framework for Clean Energy Investments in South Asia in a Global Context
Mani, Muthukumara - 2017
One of the strong messages that came out of the recent United Nations Climate Change conference in Durban was that the private sector has to play an important role if we are to globally move toward a low carbon, climate resilient -- or "climate compatible" -- future. However, private investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974955
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The Dark Side of Disclosure : Evidence of Government Expropriation from Worldwide Firms
Liu, Tingting - 2017
finance, exposure to corruption, and sales growth. Relying on a data set of more than 70,000 firms in 121 countries, the … financial constraints than unaudited firms. On the other hand, audited firms face a significantly higher level of corruption … considerations of the endogeneity of auditing and to alternative measures of corruption and financial constraints. The findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971795
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Decentralization (Localization) and Corruption : New Cross-Country Evidence
Ivanyna, Maksym - 2017
corruption in a worldwide context. This is done by presenting the conceptual underpinnings of such relationship as well as using … superior and more defensible measures of both decentralization in its various dimensions as well as corruption for a sample of … governments, is shown to have significant negative effect on the incidence of corruption regardless of the choice of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976539
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The Worldwide Governance Indicators : Methodology and Analytical Issues
Kraay, Aart - 2017
Control of Corruption. The aggregate indicators are based on several hundred individual underlying variables, taken from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966146
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Governance Matters VI : Governance Indicators for 1996-2006
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2007
Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049000
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The Worldwide Governance Indicators : Methodology and Analytical Issues
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2010
Control of Corruption. The aggregate indicators are based on several hundred individual underlying variables, taken from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190902
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Arm's-Length Trade : A Source of Post-Crisis Trade Weakness
Lakatos, Csilla - 2017
Trade growth has slowed sharply since the global financial crisis. U.S. trade data highlights that arm's-length trade--trade between unaffiliated firms--accounts disproportionately for the overall post-crisis trade slowdown. This is partly because arm's-length trade depends more heavily than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951499
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Beyond Capital : Monitoring Development Outcomes of Multinational Enterprises
Lejarraga, Iza - 2018
and 10 areas that matter for development. Building on decade-long data collection by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906342