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for foreign direct investors. Other FDI influencing factors such as economic development, macroeconomic stability, trade … and financial development, though very important conventional FDI location pull factors, were insignificant in all the …
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The countries comprising the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) are currently not very integrated into global value chains (GVCs), potentially missing out on important development opportunities. Accordingly, we explore high level options for promoting their integration. Given East Asia's...
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internationalization. We argue that the home-country’s institutional and economic underdevelopment can influence the internationalization … innovation-based internationalization. Second, they may expand into countries that are more developed or have better institutions … in order to escape weaknesses on these fronts at home; we call this escape-based internationalization. Comparative …
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Over the next generation, Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big, inter-related challenges. Its population will double to 2 billion by 2045. By then, more than half of Africans will be living in cities. And this group of mostly young people will be connected with each other and the world through...
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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We study the impact of international long-distance flights on the global spatial allocation of economic activity. To identify causal effects, we exploit variation due to regulatory and technological constraints which give rise to a discontinuity in connectedness between cities at a distance of...
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We study the impact of international long-distance flights on the global spatial allocation of economic activity. To identify causal effects, we exploit variation due to regulatory and technological constraints which give rise to a discontinuity in connectedness between cities at a distance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982869
The study investigates the impact of trade liberalization on employment, its consequence to poverty reduction and how …
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This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the … differences between South-South FDI and North-South FDI. Among the comparisons of the two types of FDI we try to summarize are be …, wages, and employment, and how these differ across industries. …
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and employment. In this context, this study analyses the two-way linkages between FDI and domestic investment in Sub …Despite the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries, these resources have not had a …-Saharan Africa. The results suggest that firstly, FDI crowds in domestic investment, and secondly, countries will gain much from …
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