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China's Path to Consumer-Based Growth : Reorienting Investment and Enhancing Efficiency
Lee, Il Houng - 2013
that some types of investment are becoming excessive in China, particularly in inland provinces. In these regions, private … existing trends continue, valuable resources could be wasted at a time when China's ability to finance investment is facing … to that in manufacturing and real estate. Financial reform would facilitate such a reorientation, helping China to …
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Reexamining the conditional effect of foreign direct investment
Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro - 2013
The prevailing consensus is that foreign direct investment (FDI) effects are conditional. At the macro level, they depend upon minimum levels of human capital or financial development, while at the micro level, they depend on type of linkage (forwards, backwards, or horizontal). This paper...
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Industry patterns in output, FDI and trade : a regional comparison of CEECs with OECD and East Asian countries
Wörz, Julia - 2005
This report analyses the link between the industrial allocation of FDI and economic development, using a newly constructed data set on industrial FDI stocks for six individual manufacturing industries (food, textiles/wood, petroleum/chemicals/rubber/plastics, metals/mechanical products,...
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Industrial output growth and foreign direct investment in Nigeria
Keji, Sunday Anderu - In: Future Business Journal 9 (2023), pp. 1-13
This research study investigated the nexus between industrial output growth and foreign direct investment in Nigeria. It is a common belief that no nation is an island on its own; hence countries around the globe interchange economic activities across borders via various mutual business...
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Environmental Quality and Growth Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria
Saibu, Olufemi Muibi - 2016
The study examines the growth effects of foreign direct investment on environmental quality in Nigeria between 1970 and 2013. Variables like per capita income, environmental degradation, foreign direct investment, human capital, inflation, trade openness, interest rate, and the interaction term...
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Causality between Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in India
Sundari, Tripura C.U. - 2016
Foreign direct investment is considered to be a vital component of every nation's attempt towards economic development. It contributes directly to the growth, and facilitates transfer of managerial skills, besides improving global market access. On this background, the present paper investigates...
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FDI and Financial Market Development in Africa
Otchere, Isaac K. - 2015
The literature on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI), financial market development (FMD) and economic growth focuses mainly on two aspects: the relationship between FDI and economic growth and the role played by FMD in that linkage. The literature is almost silent on the...
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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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International Knowledge Flows and Economic Performance an Introductory Survey of the Evidence
Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Tarr, David G. - 2012
The empirical analysis of the micro links between trade and knowledge diffusion allows us to distinguish among the key predictions of the theoretical literature on endogenous growth. This literature postulates that total factor productivity (TFP) is higher when trade gives access to a wider or...
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Foreign Direct Investment in the Financial Sector : The Engine of Growth for Central and Eastern Europe?
Eller, Markus; Haiss, Peter R.; Steiner, Katharina - 2011
This paper examines the impact of financial sector foreign direct investment (FSFDI) on economic growth by estimating a panel data model for 11 Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) between 1996 and 2003 in a cross-country growth accounting framework. The analysis concentrates on the...
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