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Almost everyone can agree that the original connection of intellectual property to trade was for purely economically instrumental purposes but few would have predicted its other consequences, particularly the reshaped relationship of intellectual property’s innovation mandate to the production...
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In June 2013, the High-Level Conference of Middle-Income Countries held in Costa Rica, organised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), ventured an intriguing look into the future of development. In particular, the conference highlighted the role of networks in...
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The macro-level debate on the economic impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) is still unsettled. This paper explores micro-level evidence by examining what Fortune Global 250 firms themselves report about their economic impact. Such reporting embodies corporate attempts to account for their...
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This paper argues that the role of international trade and the institutions that promote the raging process of economic … globalization is more likely to be debilitating for developing countries that are not well positioned to benefit from it. It argues … that because the globalization process has come to stay, countries such as Nigeria need to reposition themselves to benefit …
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In this paper, I present global evidence on the impact of expansion in mobile telephony and broadband Internet services on economic development at the subnational level. Leveraging two decades of satellite data on nightlights and the global expansion of 2G and 3G mobile networks in 3419...
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emerging but already embedded institutions of private policy-making. As hybrid actors operating across polyglot transnational …
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This working paper: (i) provides an overview of global, regional and national income inequalities based on the latest distribution data from the World Bank, UNU-WIDER and Eurostat; (ii) discusses the negative implications of rising income inequality for development; (iii) calls for placing...
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revenues should be allocated among countries in which multi-national corporations operate in an era of globalization. This … locality or domestic state we now live in an era of economic globalization and the time has come to update the CSR framework …
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investigates complementarities in the effect of economic globalization and decarbonization technologies on carbon neutrality in … economic globalization improve environmental quality; (ii) However, economic growth and primary energy consumption were found …
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Sovereign Development Funds’ (SDFs) dual mandate of pursuing financial or commercial objectives alongside long-term strategic and developments goals presents several challenges. First, SDFs must identify why private capital are not allocated at sufficient scale to target sectors – which...
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