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The paper analyzes the globalization process and its relationship with human development. To fulfill this aim, the … nature of globalization in the current world development stage, as well as human development, are explained, as criteria to … is possible to reorient the globalization process, in order to promote the global and local human development. It is …
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This study recasts the question of the specialization of developing countries in the export of products that use the environment more intensively. Specifically, the role of learning and mutation in trade games has been examined. The results of the study reveal that whatever the learning strategy...
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We provide an alternative explanation for the commonly observed FDI in developed countries (DCs) considering a vertically related market structure and endogenizing vertical technology transfer (VTT). We show that even though VTT is more costly in a less developed country (LDC), a multinational...
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Recent evidences show the co-existence of lower trade cost and higher amount of foreign direct investment (FDI), which cannot be explained by the traditional "proximity-concentration trade-off". We show that if both the home and the host country markets are important to the foreign firm, lower...
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The study attempts to look into the menace of the child labour around the contemporary world while also tracing its history. The study endeavors to find traces of child labour in the developing as well as developed world. The worst forms of child labour including armed conflict, trafficking,...
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While most economists criticise the GSP for a number of (good) reasons, all preference donors and receivers profess their commitment to what they consider as a tool for developing countries ‘to secure a share in the growth of world trade'. The political support given by both receivers and...
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Globalization - viewed as a process of economic integration that embraces governance as well as markets - could lead to … logic. Rather it will depend on how the opportunities created by globalization alter balances of power within countries and …
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The proliferation of investment and intellectual property (IP) agreements recently has been accompanied by an increasing number and expanded scope of investment disputes. The agreements give rise to various issues that particularly affect developing countries. One of the issues that has recently...
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Large Western corporations have long invested overseas to penetrate markets, seek resources, and increase efficiency. After the explosion of inward FDI to the South in the 1990s, it is now the turn of the largest companies from emerging and transition economies, including the so-called BRICs, to...
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