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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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Globalization of Labor Markets and the Growth Prospects of Nations
Basu, Kaushik - 2017
The many and varied crises in the world economy since 2007 seem to have different origins and diverse manifestations. This paper contends that there is however a structural shift beneath the global economy that is now reaching a critical mass, and that accounts for many of these crises, despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969887
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Deep Trade Agreements and Global Value Chains
Laget, Edith - 2018
Preferential trade agreements have become deeper over time, often encompassing policy areas that go beyond traditional trade policy, such as investment, competition, and intellectual property rights protection. In the literature, a prominent argument why countries sign "deep" agreements is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912338
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Openness, Specialization, and the External Vulnerability of Developing Countries
Barrot, Luis-Diego - 2017
Deepening real and financial integration of developing countries into the world economy has prompted renewed interest in the contribution of external shocks to their macroeconomic fluctuations. This paper revisits the issue using four decades of annual data for a large sample of developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968744
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Service Export Sophistication and Economic Growth
Mishra, Saurabh - 2017
Can increasing sophistication in service exports lead to economic growth? Although services were historically produced primarily for domestic consumption, they are gradually becoming more productive, tradable and unbundled. The authors construct an index of "service exports sophistication" to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976086
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Financial Globalization in Emerging Economies : Much Ado About Nothing?
Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo Levy - 2014
Financial globalization, defined as global linkages through cross-border financial flows, has become increasingly … way it is often measured, it has also led to the misperception that financial globalization in emerging markets has been … growing in recent years. The authors characterize the evolution of financial globalization in emerging markets using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068213
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Are the Poor Getting Globalized?
Mendoza, Adelina - 2018
One reason that poor people may not capture the full benefit from participation in international markets is that the goods they produce tend to be subject to relatively high trade barriers. This paper analyzes market access barriers faced by households in different income deciles by matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909665
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The Capabilities Driving Participation in Global Value Chains
Pathikonda, Vilas G. - 2017
Global value chains have altered the nature of global trade and offer significant opportunities for developing countries to expand exports, access technology, and raise productivity. Policy makers rightly seek to understand what it takes to participate in global value chains. In practice, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968200
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Globalization and Workers in Developing Countries
Rama, Martin - 2017
Stories on the positive and negative effects of globalization on workers in developing countries abound. But a … describes the pattern of job destruction and job creation associated with globalization. Because these two processes are not … that can be used to offset the adverse effects of globalization on employment and labor earnings. Finally, it discusses how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971041
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Greening Global Value Chains : Some Implementation Challenges
Sinclair-Desgagne, Bernard - 2017
The paper aims to highlight some of the most important implementation issues associated with the greening of global value chains with special attention given to how public policies and business strategies can support each other in meeting the challenge, particularly in developing countries. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973982