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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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Foreign direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa : beyond its growth effect
Wako, Hassen Abda - In: Research in globalization 3 (2021), pp. 1-21
This study relates foreign direct investment (FDI) to economic growth, institutional quality and manufacturing value added, using panel data techniques that allow for parameter heterogeneity and non-stationarity. The results confirm that economic growth, institutional quality, and natural...
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Special economic zones in Southern Africa : white elephants or latent drivers of growth and employment? : the case of Zambia and South Africa
Phiri, Mwanda; Manchishi, Shimukunku - 2020
zones in their respective legal and institutional frameworks in the 2000s as mechanisms for catalysing industrialization and … employment creation by means of domestic and foreign investments. Using a case-study approach, we find that special economic … zones in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, are largely latent drivers of growth and employment hampered by inadequate …
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Inward FDI and economic growth nexus : a case of emerging Brazil from Latin America
Kayani, Farrukh Nawaz; Al-Ammary, Omar Mahmoud; Misbah Sadiq - In: Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice 29 (2021) 3, pp. 1-7
variables like inward FDI, per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employment, capital formation, and exports for the period … relationship with GDP and the exports. Whereas, FDI has insignificant relationship with the employment and capital formation. The …
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Quality Upgrading and Export Performance in the Asian Growth Miracle
Papageorgiou, Chris - 2020
changes in these countries' sectoral export shares during 1970-2010. We build a multisector Ricardian trade model which allows …
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Aid for trade, foreign direct investment and export upgrading in recipient countries
Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm; Roberts, Michael - 2015 - Manuscript date: 4 December 2015
This paper examines empirically whether Aid for Trade (AfT) programmes and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows …
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Asia's labour-driven economic development, flying-geese style: An unprecedented opportunity for the poor to rise?
Ozawa, Terutomo - 2006
The notion of ‘shared growth’ was introduced by the World Bank in recognition of East Asia’s rapid growth accompanied by poverty reduction. It emphasizes the criticality of pro-poor policies and institutional setups in the fast-developing East Asian economies. The efforts of these...
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Capital nationality and economic development
Martins, Guilherme Klein - 2022
This paper reviews different literature strands and performs an empirical test to evaluate how capital ownership, particularly its nationality, might affect long-run economic develop- ment. Our results indicate that low and middle-income countries with larger foreign capital stock in 1980 had...
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Telecommunication Infrastructure Development and FDI into Asian Developing Nations
Shah, Mumtaz Hussain - 2019
This study strives to evaluate the effects of infrastructure availability and development on foreign direct investment (FDI) in host developing nations. Employing fixed effects panel estimation technique, panel data for 23 Asian developing countries, from 1990-2009 is used with...
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The Effect of Macroeconomic Stability on Inward FDI in African Developing Countries
Shah, Mumtaz Hussain - 2017
decision of foreign direct investors. Moreover, infrastructure availability, market size, trade liberalisation and economic … results show that better infrastructure, liberalised investment and trade regimes have significant effects on FDI inflows to …
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