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The costs of doing business internationally are many. Economizing on such costs is essential to be globally competitive. In this context, a rather overlooked area of cost reduction is the refund of global VAT incurred abroad on business expenses. A large number of exporters across the world do...
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Since the introduction of the Structural Adjustment Programs and subsequent World Bank and the IMF economic adjustment initiatives, there have been increasing concerns about their economic impacts in developing countries. The commonplace concern is that the Neo-liberal economic philosophies of...
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This study examines two multilateral initiatives, the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Compact. These are two efforts to engage transnational corporations in the development process and in the...
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What is the optimal design of the international corporate tax system? We revisit this classic question in a multi-country general equilibrium model that incorporates three key features of the modern globalized economy: multinational production; intangible capital; and international profit...
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regions (China, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and North America) as well as in groups of countries with similar levels of …
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This paper attempts to explain why internationalization processes to China are growing despite the significant … difficulties that foreign direct investments into China encounter. The answer to this question can be found in the processes of … decisions concerning investment in China are mainly the product of structural and legitimation pressure. Structural pressure can …
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In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented … increases in investment in skills and Research and Development. If current trends continue China could rank first in the very … inventors creating technologies that are near to the science base. Part of the success of China has been to attract the …
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(SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference …
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the ‘Asian Drivers’ countries India and China. The future global business legitimacy discussion will be Indian and be … western institutions of capitalism, catalyse this process. This study observes China. It looks at the Chinese models of …
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