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In this study, we investigate the contribution of trade openness to the structural change process in ECOWAS countries. Our findings suggest that the production structural change process is significantly and positively affected by the extent of trade openness. Higher openness levels are...
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investments (FDI) by taking advantage of the random timing of 44 unilateral BIT terminations in India between 2013 and 2019. Using … quarterly bilateral FDI data of 138 investor countries, our difference-in-differences (DD) estimates uncover a significant … reduction in FDI inflows to India in response to BIT terminations in a range between 14 and 28 percent compared to countries …
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This paper seeks to examine the determinants of FDI into Latin America with an aim to make policy recommendations to … boost FDI into the region. Using data for 17 Latin American countries for the period from 1990 to 2013 and two-way fixed … FDI. The results suggest that infrastructural development, human capital and good governance play crucial roles in …
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FDI stocks on income inequality among households in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay. The panel cointegration …We analyze whether foreign direct investment (FDI) has contributed to the typically wide income gaps in five Latin … analysis reveals a significant and positive effect on income inequality. Furthermore, FDI contributed to widening income gaps …
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(FDI) to spur economic development is surprisingly hard to come by. We raise the proposition that results on the growth … impact of FDI are ambiguous because highly aggregated FDI data, used in virtually all previous empirical studies, blur the … differences between resource-seeking, market-seeking and efficiency-seeking FDI and ignore the compatibility of different types of …
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We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland. We find that inequality in labor earnings increased substantially from 1988 to 1996. A common view is that the reallocation of workers from a public sector with a compressed wage distribution, to a private...
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