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China's Path to Consumer-Based Growth : Reorienting Investment and Enhancing Efficiency
Lee, Il Houng - 2013
This paper proposes a possible framework for identifying excessive investment. Based on this method, it finds evidence that some types of investment are becoming excessive in China, particularly in inland provinces. In these regions, private consumption has on average become more dependent on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082858
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The long-term effects of war on foreign direct investment and economic development : evidence from Vietnam
Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tran Quang Tuyen; Huong Van Vu - 2022
In this study, we find that the negative effect of unexploded ordnance (UXO) on the geographical density of foreign direct investment and large firms is a new channel through which the war legacy impedes local development in Vietnam. A 1% increase in the proportion of UXO-contaminated area leads...
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Is there a nonlinear relationship between economic growth and inequality? : theory and lessons from ASEAN, People Republic of China and India
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015
In view of rising inequality in fast growing Asian developing countries, it is important to study the relationship … between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can … bear a complex and non-linear relationship if policy makers try to impact on one (say, inequality) by influencing the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531112
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Developing inland China : do heterogeneous coastal foreign direct investments and exports help?
Ouyang, Puman; Yao, Shunli - 2013
By applying panel estimation models to Chinese provincial level data for 1993-2008, this paper examine the impacts of China's coastal foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports on its inland regions. The results show that coastal FDI has overall positive interregional impacts, while coastal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233720
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Inter- and Intra-Industry Linkages as a Determinant of FDI in Central and Eastern Europe
Lefilleur, Julien - 2011
This paper uses an unpublished dataset on disaggregated foreign direct investment (FDI) in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), and is rooted in new economic geography literature. A 10% increase in access to suppliers based in the FDI recipient country or access to the EU15 market for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121961
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Global Investments and Regional Development Trajectories : The Missing Links
Crescenzi, Riccardo - 2016
Regional economic development has been long conceptualised as a non-linear, interactive and socially embedded process: these features were traditionally regarded as spatially mediated and highly localised. However, unprecedentedly fast technological change coupled with the intensification of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980363
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Innovations as Factor of Absorptive Capacity of FDI Spillovers Across Regions of Russian Federation
Didenko, Alexander; Egorova, Tatiana - 2014
We study how innovations affect increase of regional total factor productivity (TFP) as a result of productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI), and confirm the presence of phenomenon in Russian data. TFP is modeled using data envelopment analysis (DEA) with the human capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014142205
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Booming Sector, Multinationals, and Local Economic Development
Soto-Diaz, Juan - 2023
Can a resource boom induce long-term local economic development? Do multinational companies (MNCs) foster such equilibria or move away the economic gains from the booming sector? This study examines the heterogeneous economic impacts of MNCs and domestic firms on the characterization of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348447
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US Foreign Affiliates, Technology Diffusion and Host Country Human Development : Human Development Index versus Human Capital
Elmawazini, Khaled - 2016
In this study, we use a cross-sectionally correlated and timewise autoregressive model and panel data for the period 1966-2000 to investigate human development as a measure of host country absorptive capacity in 30 developed and developing countries. The results suggest that technology diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999171
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Limited Linkages from Growth Engines and Regional Disparities in China
Fu, Xiaolan - 2008
Pronounced disparities in income and economic opportunities exist between the coastal and the inland regions of China. This paper explores the proposition that regional disparities in China are related intimately to the structure of exports and foreign direct investment, which results in limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028969