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What role for Chinese FDI in Africa? New survey evidence from Ethiopia and Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Merchan, Federico - 2024

, in particular between Chinese and non-Chinese firms. Based on a firm level survey on Ethiopia and Ghana, we found that …-Chinese firms in Ghana though not in Ethiopia. Also, there is little evidence that foreign firms transfer technology via horizontal … support than other foreign firms in Ghana but not in Ethiopia. …

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Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers Through Backward Linkages

Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2015

Many countries strive to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) hoping that knowledge brought by multinationals will spill over to domestic industries and increase their productivity. In contrast with earlier literature that failed to find positive intraindustry spillovers from FDI, this study...

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Global Links : The Benefits to Domestically-Controlled Plants from Inward Direct Investment - The Role of Vertical Linkages

Lileeva, Alla - 2009

Using data on manufacturing plants operating in Canada for the period from 1981 to 1997, we estimate the effect of changes in the level of foreign control upon labour productivity in domestically-controlled plants. We distinguish between foreign control in own industry of domestically-controlled...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Flows : Evidence from Patent Citations

Alazzawi, Shireen - 2004

Knowledge flows tend to be highly geographically localized. This has lead researchers to try to find a means through which this localization effect can be minimized. Foreign Direct Investment has been proposed as a possible medium that enhances the ability of nations to exchange knowledge about...

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Hold Your Enemies Closer : In Search of Positive Impacts of Horizontal Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Firms

Lu, Yi - 2009

regarding the impacts of horizontal FDI. Using annual surveys of China's manufacturing firms for the period of 1998-2005, we …

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Globalization and Technology Diffusion : The Case of Mobile Phones

Lebesmuehlbacher, Thomas - 2016

This paper examines to what degree trade, FDI and migration promote cellphone usage in developed and developing countries. Since the usage of cellphones requires the installation of costly infrastructure, I analyze the intensive and extensive margin of cellphone diffusion separately. Estimating...

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Imports, Productivity Growth, and Supply Chain Learning

Blalock, Garrick; Veloso, Francisco M. - 2007

We present evidence that importing is a source of international technology transfer. Using a detailed panel of Indonesian manufacturers, our analysis shows that firms in industries supplying increasingly import-intensive sectors have higher productivity growth than other firms. This finding...

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Returning Home : Economic Cooperation between African-Americans and Africa

Scott, Austin - 2017

This article is a survey of literature that provides general suggestions and recommendations as to how the top ten wealthiest African American owned businesses (six of the ten companies operating in two industries) can partner with African countries suitable to their expertise for mutual...

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What Determines Technological Spillovers of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from China

Hale, Galina; Long, Cheryl - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2006

Using the World Bank survey of 1500 firms in five Chinese cities, we study whether the presence of foreign firms produces technology spillovers on domestic firms operating in the same city and industry. We find positive spillovers for more backward firms. We analyze the channels of such...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillovers: Evidence from The Indian Manufacturing Sector

Sasidharan, Subash - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

During the recent period, we observe that many countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. When MNCs invest in a host country, it is assumed that a part of their technology spills to the host country firms. But the empirical studies on spillover effects of FDI have failed to...

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