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Worker Remittances, Transnationalism and Development

Orozco, Manuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

Study on the Latin American transnational migration patterns and their relationship with development.

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Globalization and Tax Competition: Implications for Developing Countries

Avi-Yonah, Reuven S. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001

The current age of globalization can be distinguished from the previous one by the much higher mobility of capital than …. This paper argues that if government service programs are to be maintained in the face of globalization, it is necessary to …

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Fragmentation in the automobile manufacturing industry: evidence from Portugal

Faustino, Horácio C.; Leitão, Nuno Carlos - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) July, pp. 287-300

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the determinants of vertical intra-industry trade (VIIT) in the automobile components industry between Portugal and the European Union 27 (EU-27) and the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) during the period 1995-2006....

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Multinational Corporations and Child Labor

Mookerjee, Rajen; Orlandi, Annalisa - In: Global Economic Review 33 (2004) 4, pp. 1-13

Using a sample of forty countries that exhibit a high incidence of child labor, this paper assesses the impact that Multinational Corporations (MNCs) have on the incidence of child labor. Our results show that higher levels of Foreign Direct Investment-our proxy for the presence of MNCs-have a...

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Globalization and the anti-globalization lobby: A deficit of thoughtfulness and clairvoyance

Das, Dilip - In: Global Economic Review 33 (2004) 4, pp. 35-50

As the current wave of globalization strengthened, so did the fury of the anti-globalization lobby against it. The …-going integration of the global economy. Indubitably, globalization has its winners and losers. The author establishes that if the … see the folly of their ways. Evidence is available to show that on balance, globalization has had enormous beneficial …

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Labour Use and its Adjustment in Indian Manufacturing Industries

Bhandari, Amit; Heshmati, Almas - In: Global Economic Review 34 (2005) 3, pp. 261-290

, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model …

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Substituting and Complementing Models of Economic Development in East Asia

Shin, Jang-Sup - In: Global Economic Review 34 (2005) 1, pp. 99-118

of globalization. In conclusion, the paper discusses the applicability of the East Asian models for today's developing …

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Theoretical review of globalization thesis: Capital mobility and the state

Jho, Whasun - In: Global Economic Review 32 (2003) 4, pp. 1-19

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the present understanding of the political economy of globalization, in … particular the globalization of capital. In the contemporary age, the regulatory capacity of the state seems to stand in a … the key features of globalization, and explores the impact of capital mobility on politics in relation to the convergence …

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Global Village or Cyber-Balkans? Modeling and Measuring the Integration of Electronic Communities

Alstyne, Marshall Van; Brynjolfsson, Erik - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 6, pp. 851-868

Information technology can link geographically separated people and help them locate interesting or useful resources. These attributes have the potential to bridge gaps and unite communities. Paradoxically, they also have the potential to fragment interaction and divide groups. Advances in...

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Global Disaggregation of Information-Intensive Services

Apte, Uday M.; Mason, Richard O. - In: Management Science 41 (1995) 7, pp. 1250-1262

Information-intensive services are being globally disaggregated as corporations respond to the pressures of increasing global competition, and take advantage of the opportunities made available by the progress of information technology and the emerging global work force. In order to globally...

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