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Financing Infrastructure in India; Macroeconomic Lessons and Emerging Market Case Studies
Walsh, James P; Yu, Jiangyan; Park, Chanho - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Driving infrastructure development, notably mobilizing financial resources for infrastructure projects, has been challenging in many countries. This study includes two parts: an empirical analysis of macroeconomic risks associated with infrastructure booms, and a case study of four emerging...
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FDI Flows to Asia; Did the Dragon Crowd Out the Tigers?
Mercereau, Benoît - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
China's dramatic success in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) has raised concerns that it has success diverted … impact of China's emergence on FDI flows to Asia using data from 14 Asian economies from 1984 to 2002. The results suggest … that China did not have much impact on FDI to other countries. In particular, lowincome economies, which compete with China …
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The Effect of Labor Mobility Restrictions on Human Capital Accumulation in China
Pan, Yao - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2012
The Hukou system restricts rural-urban migration in China. This paper proposes positive impact of the Hukou system on … in China. …
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Does information on health status lead to a healthier lifestyle? Evidence from China on the effect of hypertension diagnosis on food consumption
Zhao, Meng; Konishi, Yoshifumi; Glewwe, Paul - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 2, pp. 367-385
We examine the role of information in understanding the differential effects of income on the demand for health. In the health capital framework of Grossman (JPE, 1972), we derive the testable hypotheses that individuals adjust their diet in a healthier direction upon receiving negative health...
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A note on foreign direct investment and Indian economy
Nandi, Sukumar - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 7 (2011) 1, pp. 98-107
Foreign direct investment has assumed importance in the policy space of the developing countries in their effort to speed up the tempo of economic development. Various aspects of foreign direct investment (FDI) are being investigated in the literature so as to facilitate the decision taking...
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THE ROLE OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN THE FIRM SELECTION PROCESS IN A HOST COUNTRY: EVIDENCE FROM SLOVENIA
Kejžar, Katja Zajc - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006
This paper examines the role of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in firm selection processes in the Slovenian manufacturing sector in the 1994-2003 period by assessing the impact of the entry and presence of foreign firms on a domestic firm’s probability of exiting. The results confirm...
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The role of foreign direct investment in the host-country firm selection process: firm-level evidence from Slovenian manufacturing
Kejžar, Katja Zajc - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 147 (2011) 1, pp. 169-193
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Development of Financial Markets in Central Europe; The Case of the Ce4 Countries
Adarov, Amat; Tchaidze, Robert - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
Financial markets in the CE4 countries are still shallow compared to other advanced EU countries. While the government bond markets are comparable in size, measured by capitalization in percent of GDP, the private bond, private credit, and equity markets lag behind. Empirical analysis in this...
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Business start-up regulations and the complementarity between foreign and domestic investment
Munemo, Jonathan - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 150 (2014) 4, pp. 745-761
This paper shows that the complementarity between foreign direct investment (FDI) and domestic investment significantly depends on regulations required to start a new domestically owned business in host economies. It finds evidence that FDI crowds out domestic investment in countries with entry...
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Some determinants of carbon dioxide emissions in Bangladesh
Banerjee, Prashanta Kumar; Rahman, Matiur - In: International Journal of Green Economics 6 (2012) 2, pp. 205-215
Carbon dioxide (CO<SUB align="right"><SMALL>2</SMALL></SUB>) emissions, industrial output growth, population growth and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows in Bangladesh for 1972-2008 are found non-stationary in terms of both Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and Kwiatkowski, Phillips, Schmidt and Shin (KPSS) tests with different...</small></sub>
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