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Who Serves the Poor? Surveying Civil Servants in the Developing World
Rogger, Daniel - 2017
, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines, to highlight key aspects of their characteristics and experience of …
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Can the Knowledge Capital Model Explain Foreign Investment in Services? The Case of Singapore
Chellaraj, Gnanaraj - 2018
Singapore has been a powerful magnet for foreign direct investment and in recent years has also made significant … Singapore's investment using the Knowledge-Capital Model and compares the impact of skill endowments on manufacturing and …
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How Important are Spillovers from Major Emerging Markets?
Huidrom, Raju - 2017
The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …
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Economic and Distributional Impacts of Free Trade Agreements : The Case of Indonesia
Cali, Massimiliano - 2019
ante estimates of the impacts of two key preferential trade agreements currently negotiated by Indonesia, the largest … Indonesia may negotiate in the future. To that end it, combines a dynamic, multi-country computable general equilibrium model … the preferential trade agreements considered, the European Union?Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement …
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Local Intermediate Inputs and the Shared Supplier Spillovers of Foreign Direct Investment
Kee, Hiau Looi - 2018
Trade liberalizations have been shown to improve domestic firms' performance through the new varieties of imported intermediate inputs. This paper uses a unique, representative sample of Bangladeshi garment firms to highlight that local intermediate inputs may also enhance domestic firms'...
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FDI Spillovers and High-Growth Firms in Developing Countries
Reyes, Jose-Daniel - 2017
This paper evaluates the heterogeneous impact of spillovers from multinational corporations (MNCs) to domestic enterprises in the developing world. It empirically investigates two transmission channels of knowledge spillovers. First, direct contractual linkages between indigenous firms and MNCs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943402
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Learning or Leaning : Persistent and Transitory Growth Spillovers from FDI
Davies, Ronald B. - 2017
Using firm-level data for Jordan, the paper estimates the extent to which growth spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to local firms stem from persistent learning externalities (i.e., they endure even after foreign investment leaves as knowledge has been transferred to local firms) or...
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Potential and Actual FDI Spillovers in Global Value Chains : The Role of Foreign Investor Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and Transmission Channels
Winkler, Deborah E. - 2017
Using newly collected survey data on direct supplier-multinational linkages in Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Vietnam, this paper first evaluates whether foreign investors differ from domestic producers in terms of their potential to generate positive spillovers for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974456
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Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework : The Role of Mediating Factors for FDI Spillovers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Farole, Thomas - 2017
Using a cross-section of more than 25,000 domestic manufacturing firms in 78 low and middle-income countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper assesses how mediating factors influence intra-industry productivity spillovers to domestic firms from foreign direct investment. It...
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Do Institutions Matter for FDI Spillovers? The Implications of China'S"Special Characteristics"
Du, Luosha - 2017
The authors investigate how institutions affect productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to China's domestic industrial enterprises during 1998-2007. They examine three institutional features that comprise aspects of China's "special characteristics" : (1) the different...
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