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Infrastructure endowment and corporate income taxes as determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Central- and Eastern European Countries
Bellak, Christian; Leibrecht, Markus; Damijan, Joze P. - 2007
This paper analyzes the importance of taxes on corporate income and production-related tangible infrastructure as … the infrastructure endowment. In the empirical analysis we control for a possible interrelation between taxes and … infrastructure as detfirminants of FDI ?an issue usually neglected in the literature. Thus, we posit that there are likely to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313241
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Background report on private sector development in Latin America, the post-communist countries of Europe and Asia, the Middle East and North Africa
Woodward, Richard; Kozarzewski, Piotr; Safavi, Mehdi - 2012
After a long period in which state-led development was the dominant economic paradigm, since the 1980s private sector development has been the focus for economic policy makers. It is probably no coincidence that economic growth, stagnant for a few decades in much of the developing world, took...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430885
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Private sector development in the South and East Mediterranean region
Woodward, Richard; Safavi, Mehdi - 2012
This report is concerned with the analysis of privatization and private sector development for the eastern and southernMediterranean countries partnered with the European Union and collectively known as MED-11. Noting that the analysis applies to the situation prior to the dislocations of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326585
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The political economy of aid flows to North Africa
Harrigan, Jane - 2011
This paper provides an historical overview of aid flows to North Africa. It assesses the aid allocation process and argues that past aid flows to the region have been heavily influenced by donor political interests. This has reduced the effectiveness of aid which, with the exception of Tunisia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280088
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Transport infrastructure for MED11 countries
Carruthers, Robin - 2012
Lack of adequate infrastructure is a significant inhibitor to increased trade of the countries of the Mediterranean … region. Bringing their transport infrastructure to standards comparable with countries of a similar per capita GDP will be … costly but worthwhile. We compare the current quantities of six types of transport infrastructure with international, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326602
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Exchange rate volatility and growth in small open economies at the EMU periphery
Schnabl, Gunther - 2007
Since the introduction of the euro in January 1999, exchange rate stability at the periphery of the euro area is growing. The paper investigates the impact of exchange rate stability on growth for a sample of 41 mostly small open economies at the EMU periphery. It identifies international trade,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604819
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Economic relations with regions neighbouring the euro area in the "Euro Time Zone"
Mazzaferro, Francesco; Mehl, Arnaud; Sturm, Michael; … - 2002
This paper reviews the economic, monetary and financial relations between the EU and the euro area and a set of countries in a broad set of neighbouring regions. The 80 or so countries are mostly classified as transition, emerging or developing economies and belong to four main regions: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606159
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Competing Locations’ Market Potential and FDI in Central and Eastern Europe vs the Mediterranean
Altomonte, Carlo; Guagliano, Claudia - 2001
The issue of the location of Foreign Direct Investment is receiving a renewed interest in the literature since developing countries have now started to compete for the attraction of foreign capital. In particular, the European Union is at the centre of a region where strong integration dynamics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313339
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Infrastructure Regulation: Models for Developing Asia
Kirkpatrick, Colin; Parker, David - 2004
The objective of this paper is to review the experience of infrastructure regulation in low and middle income countries … infrastructure regulation in the low and middle income economies of the Asia region.An essential requirement for economic growth and … sustainable development is the provision of efficient, reliable and affordable infrastructure services, such as water and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282430
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Ökonomische Überlegungen zur Anerkennung von Seehafenlasten im Länderfinanzausgleich
Sichelschmidt, Henning - 2000
Mit der Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zum Länderfinanzausgleich steht auch die Berücksichtigung der Seehafenlasten der Küstenländer auf dem Prüfstand. Ökonomische Erwägungen sprechen dafür, die Belastungen dieser Länder durch Investitionen in die Hafeninfrastruktur künftig...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265454