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FDI and regional economic integration in SAARC region: problems and prospects
Ansari, Nasim; Khan, Tamanna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
economic integration in South Asia. It is argued that regional integration has the potential to promote FDI flows and economic … the SAARC share in world trade, but it has attracted more FDI inflows and its share has been rise in Asia and the world … respectively. In 2008 the SAARC share of FDI inflows in Asia was 7.92 percent and 2.89 percent in world. The concept of regionalism …
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Determinants of Intra-FDI Inflows in East Asia : Does Regional Economic Integration Affect Intra-FDI?
Kim, Jung Sik; Oh, Yonghyup - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
instability, and openness, in determining intra-FDI inflows in the ASEAN countries, China, Japan, and Korea. Our empirical results … statistically significant factors that determine regional intra-FDI inflows; other variables such as macroeconomic instability are … that would increase regional openness by 10 percent would increase intra-FDI inflows by almost 2 percent. A regional …
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Urban-rural Integration Based on Regional Economic Integration- A Case of Jiuquan-Jiayuguan Areas of Gansu Province
Yang, Fang; Wang, Xue-ding; Song, Hua-long - In: Asian Agricultural Research 03 (2011) 05
The relationship between urban-rural integration and regional economic integration is summarized in the paper. Based on the fact, it expressed the necessity and realistic meaning of pushing forward the urban-rural integration process synchronously during Jiuquan-jia yuguan (abbreviate: Jiu-jia )...
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Can Global Value Chains Effectively Serve Regional Economic Development in Asia?
Brunner, Hans-Peter - Office of Regional Economic Integration, Asian … - 2013
Regional economic integration through logistics, information network and connectivity improvement can increase the 'virtual size' of an economy as trade with neighboring countries increases. This leads to substantial benefits from scale, network, coordination and agglomeration economies. As is...
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Algeria’s Trade with GAFTA Countries: A Synthetic Control Approach
Hosny, Amr - In: Transition Studies Review 19 (2012) 1, pp. 35-42
Arab countries signed the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA) agreement in 1998, while Algeria only joined in 2005. In this study, I investigate the counterfactual trade that Algeria would have had with its GAFTA trade partners had it joined the agreement in 1998. I employ synthetic control...
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Measuring multi-membership in economic integration and its trade-impact. A comparative study of ECOWAS and SADC
Afesorgbor, Sylvanus Kwaku; Bergeijk, Peter A.G. van - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2014
One of intriguing aspects of African Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) is the extent of multi-membership, where many Africa countries are members of more than one RTA. Using a gravity model for 25 countries and the years 1980-2006 we measure the extent of multi-membership and compare its impact...
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Does Economic Integration Stimulate Capital Mobility? An Analysis of Four Regional Economic Communities in Africa.
Kumar, Saten; Sen, Rahul; Shrivastava, Sadhana Srivastava - Faculty of Business, Auckland University of Technology - 2014
It is well known that high levels of regional integration enable portfolio risk diversification and capital mobility. While there have been a number of empirical attempts to verify the presence of capital mobility using the Feldstein-Horioka (FH) approach, none of them to the best of our...
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THE EFFECTS OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IN EUROPE OF THE PATTERN NORTH-NORTH AND NORTH-SOUTH
Antevski, Miroslav - In: Economic Annals 52 (2007) 174-175, pp. 168-185
advantages, factor endowments, factor intensities, competitive advantages, FDI flows, transfers of technology, knowledge …
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Focus on Capital: New Approaches to Developing Latin American Capital Markets
Rossotto, Karen Goldstein; Peterson, Robert J.; Masci, … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book analyzes the status of the markets in Latin America and identifies the technical, political, and financial challenges to building vibrant capital markets and increasing the efficiency benefits of regional economic and financial integration.
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Regional Integration, Inclusive Growth, and Poverty: Enhancing Employment Opportunities for the Poor
Tabuga, Aubrey D.; Mina, Christian D.; Reyes, Celia M.; … - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2013
foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, and eventually by formal arrangements to liberalize trade and integrate economic …
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