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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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Employing Skilled Expatriates : Benchmarking Skilled Immigration Regimes Across Economies
De Smet, Dieter - 2017
The Employing Skilled Expatriates indicators analyze the skilled immigration regime relevant for foreign direct investment across 93 economies to provide comparable information about this regulatory space. The indicators focus on restrictions that control the inflow of skilled immigrants...
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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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Investment Climate Reforms and Job Creation in Developing Countries : What Do We Know and What Should We Do?
Rahman, Aminur - 2017
This paper reviews the literature on the role of the investment climate reforms in job creation. It finds that the current landscape of employment and private sector activity in developing countries indicates a number of potential channels through which investment climate reforms can positively...
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Micro Efficiency and Macro Growth
Nallari, Raj - 2017
is driven by research and development, the capacity utilization rate, and adoption of foreign technology (all of which …
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Intellectual Property Rights, Human Capital and the Incidence of R&D Expenditures
Bravo-Ortega, Claudio; Lederman, Daniel - 2013
Numerous studies predict that developing countries with low human capital may not benefit from the strengthening of intellectual property rights. The authors extend an influential theoretical framework to highlight the role of intellectual property rights in the process of innovation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196749
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Deep Trade Agreements and Vertical FDI : The Devil is in the Details
Osnago, Alberto - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970742
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The Economic Effects of Counterfeiting and Piracy : A Review and Implications for Developing Countries
Fink, Carsten - 2017
Policy makers around the world recognize the potentially harmful consequences of trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy. Indeed, many countries have recently initiated policy reforms to strengthen the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR). Further, minimum standards of...
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Promoting Intellectual Property Monetization in Developing Countries : A Review of Issues and Strategies to Support Knowledge-Driven Growth
Ghafele, Roya - 2017
developing countries that help generate domestic innovation and knowledge-driven growth by promoting more active technology … Shanghai Silicon Intellectual Property Exchange), to the strengthening of technology transfer and commercialization … infrastructure (focusing on the experience of the Association of University Technology Managers and Taiwan, China's Intellectual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975107
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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....
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