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India's FDI Inflows: Trends and Concepts
K, S Chalapati Rao; Dhar, Biswajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
‐06, official statistics started reporting steep increases in FDI inflows. This paper is an attempt to explain this divergence from … international norms in measuring the FDI inflows. The study finds that portfolio investors and round-tripping investments have been … important contributors to India’s reported FDI inflows thus blurring the distinction between direct and portfolio investors on …
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Global Sourcing of a Complex Good
Van Biesebroeck, Johannes; Zhang, Lijun - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We analyze a firm that produces a final good from multiple intermediates that can each be sourced domestically or from a low-wage country. The model explicitly incorporates that sourcing decisions of intermediates are interdependent. Equilibrium predictions depend crucially on a key modeling...
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Foreign Acquisitions of Land in Developing Countries. Risks, Opportunities and New Actors
Cuffaro, Nadia; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Monni, Salvatore - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2013) 2
contextualizing the various contributions included in the issue. The main sections are devoted to the determinants of FDI, including …
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The extensive margin of intrafirm trade
Gao, Xiang - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 213-232
The firm-level approach to intra-industry trade reveals that the variation in the number of exporters or exported varieties (extensive margin) accounts for a greater share of the changes in aggregate trade than the variation in the average exports per firm variety (intensive margin). This paper...
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Climbing to the top? Foreign Direct Investment and Property Rights.
Ali, Fathi; Fiess, Norbert; MacDonald, Ronald - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2009
This paper operates at the interface of the literature on the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on host … countries, and the literature on the determinants of institutional quality. We argue that FDI contributes to economic … data set of 70 developing countries during the period 1981 and 2005, and we show that FDI inflows have a positive and …
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Guatemala; 2005 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Guatemala
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This 2005 Article IV Consultation highlights that following three years of sluggish economic growth, activity in Guatemala improved somewhat in 2004, with real GDP rising by 2¾ percent, but consumer price inflation drifted upward to more than 9 percent. Monetary policy is being geared to...
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Dominica; 2005 Article IV Consultation, Fifth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Requests for Waiver of Nonobservance of Pe...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This 2005 Article IV Consultation highlights that Dominica is recovering from the aftermath of an economic and financial crisis in 2001–02 when output contracted by 10 percent. The reform strategy has been successful. Economic growth has recovered to more than 3 percent a year and is set...
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Italy; 2004 Article IV Consultation—Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Italy...
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This 2004 Article IV Consultation highlights that a cyclical recovery is under way for Italy, with real GDP having risen by 1.2 percent in the first three quarters of 2004 relative to the same period of the previous year, thanks to the favorable external environment and a recovery of investment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825131
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Slovak Republic; 2004 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Slovak Republic
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
This 2004 Article IV Consultation highlights that Slovakia’s economic performance has improved since the 2003 Article IV Consultation. Output has expanded strongly, and fiscal and external balances have narrowed substantially in recent years. These developments were assisted by large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825144
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Fiscal Policy in Nigeria; Any Role for Rules?
Baunsgaard, Thomas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
Fiscal policy in oil-producing countries can be profoundly affected by oil revenue uncertainty and volatility. Policy formulation should factor in the exhaustibility of the natural resources and aim at reducing oil revenue volatility passed on to the economy. Past fiscal policy in Nigeria has...
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