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Financial globalisation uncertainty/instability is good for financial development

Asongu, Simplice A.; Koomson, Isaac; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2015

Purpose - This study assesses the effect of time-dynamic financial globalisation uncertainty on financial development in 53 African countries for the period 2000-2011. Design/methodology/approach - Financial globalisation uncertainty is estimated as time-dynamic to capture business cycle...

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China's Strategies in Economic Diplomacy : A Survey of Updated Lessons for Africa, the West and China

Asongu, Simplice - 2015

The Washington consensus, the hitherto dominant scheme is being encroached by the Beijing model. Many African nations are increasingly embracing this Beijing approach because the dominant Western model has failed to deliver on a number of fronts. This is increasingly evident because China's...

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Financial Development Dynamic Thresholds of Financial Globalization : Evidence from Africa

Asongu, Simplice - 2015

Purpose – The issue of which financial initial conditions are necessary to materialize the benefits of financial globalization remains open to debate in the literature. In this paper, we try to put some empirical structure on the concept of financial threshold conditions in order to give...

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Growing export performance of transition economies: EU market access versus supply capacity factors

Jaklič, Andreja; Damijan, Jože P.; Rojec, Matija; … - 2008

, structural refirms, and targeted FDI are in the forefront. …

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Sino-African relations : some solutions and strategies to the policy syndromes

Asongu, Simplice A.; Ssozi, John - 2015

We survey about 110 recently published studies on Sino-African relations; put some structure on the documented issues before suggesting some solutions and strategies to the identified policy syndromes. The documented issues classified into eight main strands include, China: targeting nations...

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The economic consequences of China-Africa relations : debunking myths in the debate

Asongu, Simplice A.; Aminkeng, Gilbert A. A. - 2013

This study dissects with great acuteness some of the big questions on China-Africa relations in order to debunk burgeoning myths surrounding the nexus. It reviews a wealth of recent literature and presents the debate in three schools of thought. No substantial empirical evidence is found to...

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Foreign Manufacturing Multinationals and the Transformation of the Chinese Economy : New Measurements, New Perspectives

Moran, Theodore - 2011

designing industrial policies, joint venture requirements, and technology transfer pressures to use FDI to create indigenous … size of manufacturing FDI inflows, the impact of multinational corporate investment in China has been largely confined to …" economy. Where do the gains from FDI in China end up? While manufacturing MNCs may build plants in China, the largest impact …

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Location Decisions and Network Configurations of Foreign Investment in Urban China

Wei, Yehua Dennis - 2014

This article studies location decisions and network configurations of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Nanjing, the … article outlines four structural changes of the Chinese economy that are underlying the location and networks of FDI … location decisions for FDI. We have also found that foreign ventures overwhelmingly serve as production facilities for either …

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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research : With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - 2008

This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...

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Legal Obstacles to International Investments in Venezuela and Anti-Corruption Policy (Obstáculos Legales a Las Inversiones Internacionales En Venezuela Y Política Anticorrupción)...

Fach Gómez, Katia - 2017

This article begins by presenting some recent statistical data on rule of law, investment, and corruption in Venezuela. It focuses afterwards on analysing the 2014 Venezuelan Anti-Corruption Law, and it develops various arguments that may lead to question this Law ́s real objectives from an...

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