"As businesswomen, we want to find how we can network cost effectively. We have a better future, because when you network, you get markets, you get experience, you get success stories from different places." These were the comments made by Dina Bina, a small flower shop owner in Dar es Salaam...

Seit geraumer Zeit werden die Auswirkungen der Geschäftsaktivitäten von weltweit tätigen Unternehmen (Transnational Corporations, TNCs) auf Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländer kontrovers diskutiert. Im Gefolge der Globalisierung treten Risiken und negative Effekte immer deutlicher hervor,...

We consider two channels via which foreign inputs into industrial production may lead to productivity effects. The first one concerns dynamic externalities between firms which share technical and organizational knowledge which is vital for the productivity growth of a particular industry. We...