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The causal relationship between information and communication technology and foreign direct investment

Gholami, Roghieh; Lee, San-Yong Tom; Heshmati, Almas - 2003

This paper investigates the simultaneous causal relationship between investments in information and communication technology (ICT) and foreign direct investment (FDI), with reference to its implications on economic growth. For the empirical analysis we use data from 23 major countries with...

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Does internet connectivity affect export performance? Evidence from the transition economies

Clarke, George R. G. - 2002

Over the past few years, many commentators have suggested that the Internet is one of the forces driving globalization. This paper tries to assess one aspect of these claims, looking at whether Internet access appears to affect the export performance of enterprises in low- and middle-income...

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Remittances by emigrants: Issues and evidence

Solimano, Andrés - 2003

Remittances, after foreign direct investment, are currently the most important source of external finance to developing countries. Remittances surpass foreign aid, and tend to be more stable than such volatile capital flows as portfolio investment and international bank credit. Remittances are...

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Gender-related indicators of well-being

Klasen, Stephan - 2004

This paper discusses the rationale as well as the challenges involved when constructing gender-related indicators of well-being. It argues that such indicators are critically important but that their construction involves a number of conceptual and measurement problems. Among the conceptual...

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Trends in income distribution in the post- World War II period: Evidence and interpretation

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Kiiski, Sampsa - 2001

73 countries accounting for over four-fifths of world population and GDP. The paper finds that over the last two decades … trends recorded since the end of World War II. The paper also suggests that, with the exception of growing educational …

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Fuelling war or buying peace: The role of corruption in conflicts

LeBillon, Philippe - 2001

Corruption is endogenous to many political structures and serves key functions beyond the self-interest of public officials and politicians. Like violence, corruption participates in political ordering and, although corruption may in itself play a corrosive role on economies and rule-based...

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The market place for ideas: An analysis of knowledge diffusion in academic journals

Heap, Shaun Hargreaves; Parikh, Ashok - 2002

The thought that the academy might function like a ‘market place for ideas’ has been influential in the economics of science and is increasingly so in the philosophy of science/economic methodology literature. This paper contributes to this literature by examining one respect in which the...

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Export dynamism and market access

Mayer, Jörg - 2003

Market access liberalization has influenced product-specific growth of world exports and contributed to the shift in … the structure of world exports of manufactures towards electrical and electronic goods (including parts and components … moving to full trade liberalization would lead to an increase in the share of agricultural products in total world trade by …

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What fundamentals drive world migration?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2003

the world migrations that give rise to public alarm. This paper offers a quantitative assessment of the economic and … demographic fundamentals that have driven and are driving world migration, across different historical epochs and around the world … evidence drawn from more than a century of world migration experience? How do inequality and poverty influence world migration …

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Regional output differences in international perspective

Aten, Bettina; Heston, Alan - 2003

estimates provided for the geographical units present opportunities for understanding the world economic structure. …

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