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By bridging the gap between domestic savings and investment and bringing the latest technology and management know-how from developed countries, foreign direct investment (FDI) can play important role in achieving rapid economic growth in the developing countries. The fact is that FDI mostly...
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and skills transfer. Understanding the determinants of FDI inflows into developing countries is therefore an important …
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load off Turkey’s shoulders. These links can be found in the continent Africa. As the host of world’s several fastest …. This paper investigates future potential prospects in the continent Africa for Turkey. Investigating each country both in … North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa for the opportunities they present will provide an inside look at the continent and will …
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This study dissects with great acuteness some of the big questions on China-Africa relations in order to debunk … direction of China-Africa relations. In the mean, the relationship from an economic standpoint is promising and encouraging but …
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wages by MNEs to retain good labourers. All of these benefits can be important for Africa, the world's poorest continent, in … FDI flows destined for Africa. In this line the present paper presents results from an empirical survey of German firms in … South Africa. South Africa may be an interesting case in which to study the impacts of MNEs on African development as it has …
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This paper investigates the effect of foreign presence on the productivity of manufacturing industries in Ghana, using firm level panel data. We examine both labor and total factor productivity (TFP), which we compute using the Levinsohn and Petrin (2003) methodology. We control for a number of...
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We argue that personal (e.g., age, gender and education) and circumstantial (e.g., bureaucratic rank and sector of employment) factors affect the cost and the benefit of bribe-taking by the bureaucrats. The bureaucrat’s bribe-taking decision is modeled. A unique data set is used to test the...
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calculated on the basis of selected determinants (in period 1992-2003), the results confirm that the actual current account …
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magnitude and effects of key economic determinants of coffee exports, producer price and production. In analyzing the …
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The study critically analyzed the dynamic and simultaneous inter-relationship between inflation and its determinants in … inflation and its determinants were examined usig the Augmented Engle-Granger (AEG) cointegration test and Error Correction …
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