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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillovers: Evidence from The Indian Manufacturing Sector
Sasidharan, Subash - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
During the recent period, we observe that many countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. When MNCs invest in a host country, it is assumed that a part of their technology spills to the host country firms. But the empirical studies on spillover effects of FDI have failed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856451
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Testing for horizontal and vertical foreign investment spillovers in China, 1998–2007
Du, Luosha; Harrison, Ann; Jefferson, Gary H. - In: Journal of Asian Economics 23 (2012) 3, pp. 234-243
As with many developing countries, the Chinese government hopes that knowledge brought by multinationals will spill over to domestic industries and increase their productivity. In this paper, we show that foreign investment originating outside of Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan has positive effects...
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Integración regional y su relación con la dinámica de las plantas: un enfoque de diferencias-en-diferencias
Peluffo, Adriana - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias … - 2011
In this work we examine technology/productivity spillovers to Uruguayan manufacturing firms through trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and learning by exporting, for the period 1997-2001. This work contributes to the existing literature by providing evidence of the dynamic gains from opening...
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鼓励还是抑制？初探外商直接投资与新民营企业进入
Wang, Daili - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As one of the numerous merits brought by global financial integration, foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an indispensable role in fostering economic growth in the developing world. Different from previous literatures which concentrate on discussing the FDI productivity spillover effect, the...
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Solving the Reemployment Puzzle: From Research to Policy
Wandner, Stephen A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
This book provides a detailed insider's view under the Clinton and Bush administrations of the process by which eight social science experiments influenced federal laws and policies to alleviate joblessness in the United States.
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The Determinants of R&D Investment: A Survey of the Empirical Research
Becker, Bettina - School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University - 2013
This paper offers an extensive survey and a critical discussion of the empirical literature on the driving factors of R&D. These factors are subsumed under five broad types. The paper first summarises the key predictions from theory regarding each type's R&D effect. It then examines for which...
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Globalization and International Development: Critical Issues of the 21st Century
Asefa, Sisay (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
These papers address globalization issues with a special emphasis on its impact on poverty. In general, the contributors recommend expanding the flows between countries to accelerate growth and reduce inequalities. These flows include international trade and capital, migration, remittances, and...
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On Multinational Firms, Diffusion of Skills and Development
Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006
I study the implications for the development of a country hosting of multinational firms. The paper argues that despite the negative impact on existing local firms, the presence of foreign firms induce the emergence of a new sector of domestic firms and that in the long term, the country to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069334
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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillovers : Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector
Sasidharan, Subash - 2015
During the recent period, we observe that many countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. When MNCs invest in a host country, it is assumed that a part of their technology spills to the host country firms. But the empirical studies on spillover effects of FDI have failed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708042
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Management of technology in Ghana – problems & prospects
Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
applications of technology, large proportions of the peoples of Africa still leave on less than $1.00 per day income. The seven … around us. On the other hand, Africa, with the largest mineral reserves, in many cases, and the largest biomass potential but … technology into society in an effective, sustainable way so that peoples of Africa can put technology to use to improve their …
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