This paper has two main objectives: first, to consider country specific determinants that attract services FDI, and second, to compare the importance of these determinants vis-a-vis the traditional determinants that attract manufacturing FDI. Using the OECD countries as our sample, and 1980 to...

This paper looks at the historical lessons that might serve to entrech Latin America's newly resurgent growth phase. It briefly reviews the post-World War II experiences in Latin America and Asia, focusing on the conditions that favored capital accumulation and productivity growth in the faster...

This report offers an extensive analysis of the effects of the EU Single Market. It sheds light on four interrelated aspects: It first reveals the asymmetric economic performance across member countries, which also mirrors structural differences. These differences in economic outcomes are next...

The study investigates the impact of trade liberalization on employment, its consequence to poverty reduction and how trade openness affects economic development in Pakistan. Although, increase in poverty and unemployment is observed, this study ascertains a growth in macroeconomics indicators....

Recent worldwide events suggest there's a deepening in deglobalization, which means that some countries are starting to reduce the commercial, labor or financial relations with others, because of the many risks and costs that are affecting their recovery from the crisis of 2008. In particular,...

Foreign currency reserves are of great significance to any developing country's economic growth prospects. Exports have been for long decades regarded as a major source of foreign currency and a driving force for economic growth. This paper empirically examines the export-led growth paradigm for...

Customs procedures have attracted attention of many nowadays, as there is increased trade among nations. Countries have designed laws and procedures as to the treatment of various traded goods. Countries have entered into various trade agreements and some have formed customs unions, just to...

For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...

The ability of a nation to resist a crisis depends on the institutional or spatio-temporal fixes it possesses, which can buffer the effects of the crisis, switch the crisis to other nations or defer its effects to the future. Corporate governance configurations in a given country can function as...