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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...
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Options for resistance strategies of local chinese companies against foreign competition in the chinese consumer goods market
Zhang, Lin - 2008
more Multinationals have rushed into the Chinese consumer goods market to seek new and tremendous market development … opportunities. For local Chinese companies, the numerous entries of Multinationals have seriously threatened their existing market … Chinese companies using any of those four options to compete against the entry of Multinationals into their home markets can …
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Offshoring Jobs? Multinationnals and U.S. Manufacturing Employment
Harrison, Ann; McMillan, Margaret - 2007
Critics of globalization claim that U.S. manufacturing firms are being driven by the prospects of cheaper labor to shift employment abroad. Yet the evidence, beyond anecdotes, is slim. Using firm-level data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), we estimate the impact on U.S....
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Market Reactions to Export Subsidies
Hines, James R. Jr. - 2003
This paper analyzes the economic impact of export subsidies by investigating stock price reactions to a critical event in 1997. On November 18, 1997, the European Union announced its intention to file a complaint before the World Trade Organization (WTO), arguing that the United States provided...
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Rethinking Marketing Programs for Emerging Markets
Dawar, Niraj; Chattopadhyay, Amitava - 2000
profitability. These multinationals are trapped by their own devices in gilded cages, serving the affluent few and ignoring the … attract billions of new consumers, the marketing programs of multinationals need to be rethought from the ground up. We …
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Las estrategias de internacionalización de las empresas chinas
Otero-Iglesias, Miguel; Vidal Muñoz, Elena - 2020
dependent on external input. On the other hand, the important and growing exit of the Chinese multinationals is due to the will …
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International Trade Openness and Gender Gaps in Pakistani Labor Force Participation Rates Over 57 Years
Hyder, Asma; Behrman, Jere R - 2011
rates in broad occupational categories in Pakistan. The method used controls for average gender differences in these …
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The Implementation of Value Transfers in an Era of Financial Volatility: meeting the logistical challenge
Ballard, Roger - 2008
Presented at a workshop at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, this document explores the logistical solutions deployed within contemporary Hawala-style value transmission systems. It suggests that those frustrated by the lack of an effective global payments system for retial...
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A comparison of market entry strategies adopted by Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firms from major and emerging software exporting nations
Kelly, Stephen J; Harrison, Jennifer L - 2009
This study examines the market entry practices of Australian and Pakistani Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firms and the proposition that Local Software Economy (LSE) maturity affects the selection of market entry practices. The question is significant as it is focused on an...
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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...
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