What is the relationship between foreign manufacturing multinational corporations (MNCs) and the expansion of indigenous technological and managerial technological capabilities among Chinese firms? China has been remarkably successful in designing industrial policies, joint venture requirements,...

This article examines the growth attributes of manufacturing industries in China for the sample period of 1999–2007. The output growth of manufacturing industries classified under four groups and four regions is decomposed into four components of input growth, scale effect, technical progress,...

The purpose of this study is to examine the use of recently developed, strategically focused management accounting techniques by Egyptian managers and to compare the adoption rate to other MENA countries as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. In addition, the paper aims at...

China's M2/GDP ratio keeps rising, although it is already in the highest tier throughout the world. In this paper, we investigate empirically this puzzle using different levels of data. We first provide a quantitative approach to estimate the degree of China's excess liquidity based on...

Corporate managers are actively engaged to take business and financial decisions which results in long term value to their shareholders. Managers pursue this goal through their investment, financing and dividend decisions. Dividend policy refers to the payout the management decides to compensate...

Indeed, China's ascent is significantly changing the landscape in aid-donor and aid-recipient relationship for African countries, despite the changes, empirical studies on the determinant and motive is lacking. Therefore, this paper examines the determinants of China's financial aid to oil/...

In 2019-20, the real gross value added (GVA) of Indian manufacturing declined by about three per cent over the previous year, which is rare because a negative growth rate in manufacturing in India has not occurred in the past 20 years. The growth rate of the Indian economy in 2019-20 was about...

This paper examines the determinants of China's financial aid to oil/minerals exporting African countries. By using China's loan data obtained from the China Africa Research Initiative, Johns Hopkins University and UN-COMTRADE product data classified into oil/minerals, agriculture and...

The rising trade in intermediate goods accounts for almost two-thirds of world’s trade (MGI, 2019). India's export share for intermediate goods in its total exports has increased from 31.18% in 2011 to 32.52% in 2016. Moreover, India's overall share in world merchandise exports has itself...

At the beginning of the 1990s, China witnessed an increase in its international competitive strength in technology-intensive and capital-intensive industries, and a decrease in strength in labor-intensive industries. This paper analyzes the effect of vertical specialization on China's...