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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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We hypothesize that North-South trade is associated with knowledge spillovers that create labor productivity gains depending on various determinants of Southern absorptive capacity. We use the novel World Input-Output Database (WIOD) that provides bilateral and bisectoral panel data for 39...
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of designing aid does increase the welfare of the poor. We also consider the situations where the donor and the recipient …, under certain conditions, increase the welfare of the poor and its own compared to the case of simultaneous moves. …
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This paper examines the impact of education, trade, governance and distance on technology diffusion and TFP in Latin …-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and trade's R&D content, and falls with distance to the … (closest) North; ii) the East Asia - SAM education gap's impact equals that of trade plus governance; iii) an increase in SAM …
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This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology … Great Recession (1976-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises with education, trade, governance (ETG) and imports' R&D content … accounting for its TFP gap with East Asia; iii) the impact of the education gap equals the sum of the governance and openness …
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