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reducing an employer's ability to practice taste-based discrimination. Other studies examine how FDI-induced technology … also allows for technology adoption. These ideas are particularly important in service-oriented sectors, where the highest … with foreign investment to reduce gender inequality in occupations that suffer most from discrimination, while technology …
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In recent years developing countries have emerged as significant participants in the OFDI (outward foreign direct investment) activities having the strategic asset seeking motive. Such OFDI which is assets exploiting cum augmenting involves potential two way cross border knowledge flows. This...
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Multinational companies (MNCs) from emerging markets (EMs) are new and very dynamic actors on the global scene. Starting from the late 1970s a strand of literature flourished on Third World multinationals (Lall, 1983a). More recently, the increasing expansion abroad by multinationals based in...
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technology works in favour of the technology recipients. To test the same, an extensive field survey was undertaken leading to …, revealed that the export generating effects of foreign technology, as mentioned above, have not been felt in the spirit of … furthering the export performances. In spite of access to foreign technology and its advantages, the export performance of FCA …
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paper takes into account both these effects and tests for human capital formation effect of FDI in India for core … dynamic generalized method of moments techniques. This study does not find any positive supply side human capital formation …
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imports under foreign technology transfers had been made at the distorted prices and the manipulated prices in most of cases …
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The fast growth of the service sector is one of the characteristic features of the contemporary economy. Amongst other CEE countries, Poland is one of the emerging locations for this sector. The aim of the paper is to examine and compare the business service sector in India, Ireland and Poland....
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This study investigates the impact of internal and external research and development (R&D) on the innovation performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in India and Pakistan. Micro-level data was obtained for 3,492 Indian and 696 Pakistani SMEs from the World Bank's Enterprise...
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Network has been involved in the sharing of grassroots technology developed in India with Kenya, notably a food processing … of the dynamism of the informal sector. Lessons from the Network’s experience in Kenya and its technology transfer …
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This study investigates the impact of internal and external research and development (R&D) on the innovation performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in India and Pakistan. Micro-level data was obtained for 3,492 Indian and 696 Pakistani SMEs from the World Bank's Enterprise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490750