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International business : competing in the global marketplace
Hill, Charles W. L. - 2007 - 6. ed., internat. ed.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004858498
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Research and development towards green technologies under technical and policy uncertainty
Valeria Jana Schwanitz - 2010
Green technological progress bears a strong potential to alleviate climate change, but its utilization is contingent on factors which are by nature impossible to anticipate or predict. Developing stochastic optimisation models, we explore how the decision to invest in research and development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466981
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Upgrading the System of Innovation in Late-Industrialising Countries -The Role of Transnational Corporations in Thailand's Manufacturing Sector
Martin Berger - 2005
The objective of this thesis is to investigate the potential contribution of transnational corporations (TNC) to the upgrading of systems of innovation in late-industrialising countries. This study looks specifically at TNC-affiliierter in Thailand’s manufacturing sector and compares them with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429012
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Modelling the policy challenges confronting globalising developing countries
Karunaratne, Neil Dias - 2008
diversification and currency crises models are reviewed to distil policy guidelines to promote the globalization of developing … countries. The overriding objective of promoting the globalization of developing countries is to reduce poverty and income … latest wave of globalization has bucked the past trend of increasing poverty and income inequality in developing countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441785
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FDI in Emerging Markets: A Home-Country View
Whitman, Marina von Neumann - 1999
In the 1950s and 60s, the American view of foreign direct investment(FDI) in emerging markets, then called less-developed or developing countries, was that it was desirable for three reasons: as a vehicle for economic development and a partial substitute for foreign aid; to promote economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476856
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Structural Reform and Firm Profitability in Developing Countries
Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro; Dau, Luis Alfonso - 2008
Latin America support the arguments, suggesting that, contrary to the views of many critics of globalization, domestic firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477387
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Impact of the allowance allocation on prices and efficiency
Neuhoff, Karsten; Grubb, Michael; Keats, Kim - 2005
Successful cap and trade programs for SO2 and NOx in the US allocate allowances to large emitters based on a historic base line for a period of up to thirty years. National Allocation Plans in Europe allocate CO2 allowances in an iterative approach first for a three then for a five-year period....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442016
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11.471 Targeting the Poor: Small Firms, Workers, and Local Economic Development, Fall 2004
Tendler, Judith - 2004
Covers conditions under which public-sector policies, programs, and projects succeed in enhancing the economic activities of poorer groups and micro-regions in developing countries. Topics include local economic development; small enterprises; various forms of collective action; labor and worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432508
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Comparative Foreign Direct Investment Law: Determinants of the Legal Framework and the Level of Openness and Attractiveness of Host Economies
Steyt, Jean-Yves P - 2006
Foreign direct investment, henceforth denoted FDI, constitutes a basic component of the ongoing economic globalization … ongoing economic globalization, has accelerated this trend towards more FDI hospitability, i.e., less legal and regulatory FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467530
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Rebalancing Oil Contracts in Venezuela
Cárdenas García, Julián - 2011
During the last decade, the Venezuelan government has pursued a reform of the legal regime of hydrocarbons tailored to its interests as an oil producing country. However, the ongoing consequences of the global economic recession which negatively impacted the Venezuelan economy, call into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467536