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Existing work on China's economic influence in Africa refers to Africa in broad terms, thereby generalizing the results … paper remedies this by focusing on a single, oil-importing country: Kenya. The paper examines China's economic presence in … Kenya and some of the popular myths surrounding Chinese economic activity. The first myth is that Chinese companies do not …
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Private Chinese outbound investment, not as well-known as government-led investment, offers special opportunities and … challenges for Africa today. The significance of Chinese private-sector investment is already visible in the burgeoning … this trend is the increased pressure of industrial restructuring in coastal China, a force that drives some labor …
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increases and decreases, respectively, of gross foreign direct investment inflows to the developing world and differentiated …
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relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the …
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Using a comprehensive and proprietary data set on international private equity activity, this paper studies the determinants of buyout investments across 61 countries and 19 industries over 1990-2017. The study finds evidence that macroeconomic conditions, development of stock and credit...
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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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Recent data show that the institutional content of preferential trade agreements has evolved over time. Although pre-1990s preferential trade agreements mostly focused on tariff liberalization, recent agreements increasingly contain deep provisions in diverse areas, such as intellectual property...
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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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This paper examines how financial development influences foreign direct investment. The direct and indirect sector-specific effects that source countries' financial development and destination countries' financial development can have on foreign direct investment are first identified in a...
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This paper investigates the effect that tight credit conditions had on outward foreign direct investment flows during the 2008-2010 global financial crisis. A difference-in-differences approach is used to isolate a "credit channel" impact of the global financial crisis on foreign direct...
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