This paper presents evidence on the effects of access to domestic and international markets on per capita consumption of households using data from rural China. The econometric analysis uses alternative identification schemes to address the potential endogeneity of access to markets. We use...

Untersucht werden die Auswirkungen einer internationalen Kooperation heimischer Hersteller mit dem ausländischen Weltmarkt-beherrschenden Produzenten eines Fertigprodukts auf die Wohlfahrt von Niedrigeinkommenshaushalten in ländlichen Regionen Pakistans. Empirische Schätzungen dieser...

The impact of large-scale foreign land acquisitions (“landgrabs”) on rural households in developing countries has proven a highly contentious question in public discourse. Similarly, in the academic literature, "evolutionary" theories of property rights and "enclosure" models make...

This paper investigates the performance of inward FDI into the rural and urban Unitary Authorities or Districts of the North-West of England.The paper provides evidence that foreign-owned firms located in rural areas perform as well as domestic firms in the same rural context and as well that...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Dutch disease and economic diversification – should the approach by developing countries be different -- 3. Dutch disease hypothesis and non-resource sector firms -- 4. Trade Facilitation in South Asia: Landlocked Countries’ Perspective -- 5. The Determinants of FDI...