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Does Pollution Hinder Urban Competitiveness?
Kahn, Matthew Edwin - 2019
This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the …
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Financial Globalization in Emerging Countries : Diversification vs. Offshoring
Ceballos, Francisco - 2017
transactions take place. The authors find that globalization via the diversification channel expanded throughout the world during …Financial globalization has gathered attention since the early 1990s because of its macro-financial implications and … growing importance. But financial globalization has taken shape via different forms over time. This paper examines two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975170
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Joining, Upgrading and Being Competitive in Global Value Chains : A Strategic Framework
Cattaneo, Olivier - 2017
In recent years, global value chains have played an increasing role in business strategies, profoundly affecting international trade and development paradigms. Global value chains now represent a major source of socio-upgrading opportunities and a new path for development. Trade, competitiveness...
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China, India, and the Future of the World Economy : Fierce Competition or Shared Growth?
Dimaranan, Betina - 2016
substantial welfare benefits for the world, and for China and India, and to act as a powerful offset to the terms-of-trade losses …
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The Domestic Segment of Global Supply Chains in China Under State Capitalism
Tang, Heiwai - 2017
This paper proposes methods to incorporate firm heterogeneity in the standard input-output table-based approach to portray the domestic segment of global value chains in a country. The analysis uses Chinese firm census data for the manufacturing and service sectors, along with constrained...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923417
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In the Wake of the Global Crisis : Evidence from a New Quarterly Database of Export Competitiveness
Gaulier, Guillaume - 2017
world. With the global economy evolving continuously and rapidly, countries must pay close attention to their positioning on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973649
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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...
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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
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How Do Multinationals Report Their Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts? Evidence from Global Reporting Initiative Data
Winkler, Deborah E. - 2017
This paper examines the role of multinational enterprises in sustainability reporting. The study assesses how multinational enterprise status correlates with a company's average disclosure rate and probability of reporting on economic, labor and social, environmental, and governance indicators....
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