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foreign direct investment, their relationship with tax treaties and other international tax law, the problem of how to address …
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I propose to use tax incentives to attract foreign direct investments (FDI) to developing countries to promote growth … growth; (b) according to "the new growth theories" endogenous technological progress is the engine of growth; (c … growth in developing countries; (f) little implementation of the "new growth theories" was done in the legal literature; (g …
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We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG …'s properties by analyzing the growth, debt, and distributional consequences of big-push public investment programs with different … mixes of investment in human capital and infrastructure. We show that investment in human capital is much more effective …
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The main argument of this paper is that there is considerable heterogeneity in the way aid can shape tax performance in developing countries: through behavioural effects, donor conditionality, recipient policy reform and technical assistance; and these effects are country-specific. We investigate...
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The paper examines the politics of infrastructure in the post-privatisation era. It shows the tensions between the interests of private investors and the expectations of the citizenry for the assembly of a raft of capital assets that collectively underpin the operation of liveable sustainable...
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the taxation of passive investment income under the personal tax system. Developing countries could also use the move to a …
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is significant difference in the growth effects of foreign direct investment and domestic investment while the joint … effects of foreign direct investment and domestic investment on growth of African countries is found to be statistically … significant. In the short-run, estimates show that foreign direct investment has negative influence on growth of 24 countries out …
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A large body of evidence suggests that poor countries tend to invest less (have lower PPP - adjusted investment rates …) and to face higher relative prices of investment goods. It has been suggested that this happens either because these … countries have lower TFP in the investment - good producing sectors, or because they are subject to greater investment …
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Following the adoption by the international community of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach, which provides the basis for concessional lending by the multilateral institutions, there has been a resurgence of interest in the poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) of different...
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