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One goal of China's Go Out policy is to create goodwill in countries around the world. At the same time, China … attitudes of individuals in developing countries towards China at both the national and subnational level. Using repeated cross … investment from China to Latin America affect opinions on China within 18 Latin American countries over the 2002-2013 period. We …
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One goal of China's Go Out policy is to create goodwill in countries around the world. At the same time, China … attitudes of individuals in developing countries towards China at both the national and subnational level. Using repeated cross … investment from China to Latin America affect opinions on China within 18 Latin American countries over the 2002-2013 period. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853170
This paper examines empirically whether Aid for Trade (AfT) programmes and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows affect export upgrading and, if so, whether their effects are complementary or substitutable. Export upgrading entails export diversification (including overall export...
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This study assesses the role of foreign aid in reducing the hypothetically negative impact of terrorism on trade using a panel of 78 developing countries with data for the period 1984-2008. The empirical evidence is based on interactive GMM estimations with forward orthogonal deviations....
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Since the turn of the millennium, China opened up internationally both in terms of its current account (trade) and its … capital account, even though the opening of the latter happened de facto, not de jure. With respect to China being Africa … that capital flows from China to Africa in the form of mainly economic cooperation projects, but also FDI contribute to an …
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We show that traditional gravity variables play a significant role in explaining trade flows related to global value chain participation. We find evidence that cooperation costs - measured by linguistic and geographical proximity - are more relevant for trade that reflects cross-border...
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We consider two channels via which foreign inputs into industrial production may lead to productivity effects. The first one concerns dynamic externalities between firms which share technical and organizational knowledge which is vital for the productivity growth of a particular industry. We...
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Over the last decades there has been a sizeable increase in trade and financial openness, triggered by current and capital account liberalization as well as improvements in transport and communication technologies. As a consequence, the importance of spillover effects is likely to have increased...
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democracy. We also find that individuals who have a positive attitude towards China are more likely to value democracy. In …
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