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Do Foreign Inflows Benefit Pakistani Poor?
Ali, Muhammad; Nishat, Muhammad - In: The Pakistan Development Review 48 (2009) 4, pp. 715-738
human development. Our foreign inflow variable consists of Foreign Direct Investment, Remittances and Foreign Assistance …
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Aid and development: Issues and reflections
Tribe, Michael - Economics Department, University of Strathclyde - 2013
The paper has three main sections. The first is a review of two particular propositions which appear in Dambisa Moyo’s 2009 book Dead Aid which were not subjected to rigorous analysis in the reviews which appeared following its publication. The finding is that neither proposition survives...
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Essays on International Trade and Development
Heid, Benedikt - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...
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Do international remittances cause Dutch disease?
Beja, Edsel Jr. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
international remittances appears to afflict the developing countries more than the upper income countries. Developing countries …
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Apertura económica en colombia y el sector externo (1990 -2004)
Martínez, Aura Isabel Nájar - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2006)
Resumen La transición de una economía proteccionista basada en el modelo de sustitución de importaciones, a un modelo neoliberal de apertura económica en la década de los noventa, trajo efectos a la economía colombiana, especialmente para la industria nacional, el sector agrícola y el...
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Recent Chinese Buyout Activity and the Implications for Global Architecture
Whalley, John; Antkiewicz, Agata - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We discuss recent cases of Chinese buyout activity in the OECD (especially in the US and the EU) in resource and manufacturing sectors. While most of the buyout attempts have been unsuccessful, they can serve as a catalyst for a wider discussion on the implications for global arrangements over...
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Do Capital Inflows Hinder Competitiveness? The Real Exchange Rate in Ethiopia
Martins, Pedro M. G. - Department of Economics, School of Business, Management … - 2010
whether large capital inflows (e.g. foreign aid and remittances) have an impact on the RER. This empirical exercise tries to … positive shock to the terms of trade tends to appreciate the RER. Foreign aid is not found to have a statistically significant … impact, while there is only weak evidence that workers’ remittances could be associated with RER appreciations. The lack of …
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Closing Development Gaps: Challenges and Policy
H. Brooks, Douglas; Hasan, Rana; Lee, Jong-Wha; H. Son, Hyun - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2010
external trade and finance—including foreign direct investment, remittances, and aid—play a critical role. It is therefore …
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"Closing Development Gaps: Challenges and Policy Options"
H. Brooks, Douglas; Hasan, Rana; Lee, Jong-Wha; H. Son, Hyun - In: Asian Development Review 27-2 (2010) 2, pp. 1-28
external trade and finance—including foreign direct investment, remittances, and aid—play a critical role. It is therefore …
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Tied Aid, Trade-Facilitating Aid or Trade-Diverting Aid?
Pettersson, Jan; Johansson, Lars M - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009
Donor aid is often regarded as being informally tied (aid increases donorrecipient exports) and this effect is, in general, interpreted as being harmful to aid recipients. However, in this paper, using a gravity model, we show that aid is also positively associated with recipient-donor exports....
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