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Product sophistication and spillovers from foreign direct investment
Eck, Katharina; Huber, Stephan - 2014
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries is often associated with higher economic growth due to knowledge and technology spillovers to local firms. One way how FDI speeds up growth is that it facilitates the manufacturing of more sophisticated products by local firms. So far,...
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Linked in by foreign direct investment : the role of firm-level relationships in knowledge transfers in Africa and Asia
Newman, Carol; Page, John M.; Rand, John; Shimeles, Abebe; … - 2018
relatively few linkages between MNEs and domestic firms in sub-Saharan Africa compared with Asia. However, when linkages are … present in sub-Saharan Africa, they raise the likelihood of direct knowledge/technology transfers from MNEs to domestic firms …
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Apples and dragon fruits : the determinants of aid and other forms of state financing from China to Africa
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas - 2016
that much of the controversy about Chinese "aid" stems from a failure to distinguish between China’s Official Development … Assistance (ODA) and more commercially-oriented sources and types of state financing. Using a new database on China’s official … financing commitments to Africa from 2000-2013, we find the allocation of Chinese ODA to be driven primarily by foreign policy …
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Productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment : the case of Ethiopia
Turi, Abeba Nigussie - 2015
firms in Ethiopia. Being one of the pillars of the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP), identifying the productivity …
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Profit sharing under the threat of nationalization
Di Corato, Luca - 2010
A government bargains a mutually convenient agreement with a multinational corporation to extract a natural resource. The corporation bears the initial investment and earns as a return a share on the profits. The host country provides access and guarantee conditions of operation. Being the...
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Nationality matters : the geographic origin of multinationals and the productivity of their foreign affiliates
Arndt, Christian; Spies, Julia - 2012
While quantifying the foreign ownership premium has received a lot of attention in the empirical literature, there is only little known about productivity variations between foreign affiliates of multinational firms. In order to enhance the understanding of the economic causes of this...
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Technology spillover and absorptive capacity of firms and countries
Urata, Shūjirō; Baek, Youngmin - 2022
The paper examines the foreign direct investment (FDI) spillover effects in developing countries and investigates the importance of the absorptive capacity of a firm and a country in realizing and facilitating FDI spillover. It uses data obtained from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys for 107...
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Technology transfer and firm competitiveness : the case of Indonesia
Urata, Shūjirō; Baek, Youngmin - 2023
This paper examines the foreign direct investment (FDI) spillover effects from foreign to domestic firms in Indonesia and assesses the significance of geographical factors on FDI spillover. It uses firm-level data from the Indonesian Bureau of Public Statistics (BPS) covering the period from...
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Innovation and knowledge spillovers in developing countries
Bascavusoglu, Elif (contributor) - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate empirically the determinants of innovative activities in emerging countries, with particular attention to national, international and intersectoral knowledge spillovers. Our study concerns 16 emerging and 10 technology source countries, for the period...
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It worked in China, so why not in Africa? : the political economy challenge of special economic zones
Farole, Thomas; Moberg, Lotta - 2014
African countries have sought to replicate the success of East Asia by implementing special economic zones. Despite decades of international experience, there remains no blueprint for successful special economic zone policies, and the majority of special economic zones fall well below...
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