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The Effects of FDI Inflows on Host Country Economic Growth
Johnson, Andreas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2006
This paper discusses and models the potential of FDI inflows to affect host country economic growth. The paper argues that FDI should have a positive effect on economic growth as a result of technology spillovers and physical capital inflows. Performing both cross-section and panel data analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644987
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And Schumpeter Said, "This is How Thou Shalt Grow"; Further Quest for Economic Growth in Poor Countries
Beaugrand, Philippe - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
” world, especially sub-Saharan Africa, has been getting poorer while the advanced economies have been getting richer. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825901
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Reflecting upon the entrepreneurship initiatives in new emerging African nations: zooming the cultural lens on education systems in two former German colonies
April, Wilfred Isak - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 6 (2010) 3, pp. 163-174
-Saharan Africa from colonial rule; a country which was a primary role model for many African states has such a low level of literacy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008755693
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People, organisations and management: lessons for the industrialised world from the rest of the world
Elkin, Graham; Sharma, Radha - In: Global Business and Economics Review 9 (2007) 4, pp. 395-417
. There is more and more resistance to their application in the 21st century. The ideas have led to the marginalisation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005753919
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People, organisations and management: lessons for the industrialised world from the rest of the world
Elkin, Graham; Sharma, Radha - In: Global Business and Economics Review 9 (2007) 4, pp. 395-417
. There is more and more resistance to their application in the 21st century. The ideas have led to the marginalisation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008538961
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Inclusive human development in pre-crisis times of globalisation-driven debts
Asongu, Simplice; EFOBI, Uchenna; BEECROFT, Ibukun - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
inequality in OECD nations. We assess the effects of four debt dynamics on inequality adjusted human development. Instrumental … whether debt is endogenous to or interactive with globalisation. First, when external debt is endogenous to globalisation, the … effect on inclusive human development is negative, whereas when it is interactive with globalisation, the effect is positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264818
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Inclusive human development in pre-crisis times of globalisation-driven debts
Asongu, Simplice; EFOBI, Uchenna; BEECROFT, Ibukun - African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI) - 2014
inequality in OECD nations. We assess the effects of four debt dynamics on inequality adjusted human development. Instrumental … whether debt is endogenous to or interactive with globalisation. First, when external debt is endogenous to globalisation, the … effect on inclusive human development is negative, whereas when it is interactive with globalisation, the effect is positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098705
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Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791524
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51 Iweka Road (Onitsha, Nigeria): could this single African address redefine business cluster development?
Madichie, Nnamdi O.; Nkamnebe, Anayo D. - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 6 (2010) 3, pp. 229-243
emerging market context. Located at a single building in Onitsha, a market town in eastern Nigeria, '51 Iweka Road' has become … industry renowned across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Considering that most of the scholarly research on business clusters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008755702
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Sectoral analysis of Foreign Direct Investment and economic growth in Nigeria
Ayadi, Folorunso S. - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 3 (2010) 4, pp. 327-340
and causality test in exploring the possible links between FDI and economic growth in Nigeria. We determined the … economic growth in Nigeria is very weak. By disaggregating FDI data by sectors however, FDI was found to have contributed to … economic growth in Nigeria. The study therefore recommends infrastructural development, human capacity building and strategic …
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