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policy makers about the limits of transparency in curtailing "grey" types of corruption. …
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Who gets elected to political office? The negative selection hypothesis posits that the inherently dishonest run for office, expecting to earn political rent. Alternatively, the positive selection hypothesis suggests that individuals join politics to make a difference. Developing country...
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We empirically analyse the determinants of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in Egypt employing a novel panel … dataset of 26 Egyptian governorates for the period 1992 - 2008. Using the case of Arab FDI to Egypt, we also investigate … FDI stocks on the location of inward FDI. Moreover, regional investment preferential policies in Egypt - with the …
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This paper describes the main characteristics of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Egypt using an unpublished dataset … on FDI in Egypt at the governorate level. Our dataset shows that FDI is unevenly distributed across Egyptian governorates …
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This paper explores entrepreneurship amongst return migrants, how their business locations and characteristics differ from other businesses, and the implications for rural-urban inequality. First, we examine, amongst returnees, the determinants of investment in a project/enterprise. Second, we...
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This paper investigates the effect of sectoral foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in Egypt, using a …
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In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant … periods of up to 20 years (for Egypt), we examine the evolution of the glass ceiling problem for women resorting to the …
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In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan, Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant … periods of up to 20 years (for Egypt), we examine the evolution of the glass ceiling problem for women resorting to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170241
Since 2004 Egypt's growth has been accelerating in step with the launching of a series of ambitious reforms, reversing … a trend during the preceding half-decade when Egypt's growth rate fell below that of most regional peers and well below … that of the average developing country. This paper seeks to identify factors that held back Egypt's growth in the recent …
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This study examines the economic globalization and the shadow economy nexus in Egypt. Using time series data from 1976 … to 2013, the impulse response analysis shows that the response of the shadow economy in Egypt to positive shocks in … globalization by reducing the costs of doing business and trade in dealing with sizable shadow economy in Egypt …
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