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Foreign direct investment, productivity and the technology gap in African economies
Malikane, Christopher; Chitambara, Prosper - In: Journal of African Trade 4 (2017) 1/2, pp. 61-74
This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on total factor productivity conditional on relative backwardness in a panel of 45 African countries over the period 1980-2012. We use two measures of relative backwardness, namely: the distance from technological frontier and the...
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Efficiency evaluation of China's investment in Africa under the background of constructing "Silk Road Economic Belt": Application of DEA model and Malmquist index method
Ze, Tian; Yumei, Fan; Chao, Liu - In: International Journal of Management, Economics and … 7 (2018) Special Issue, pp. 58-72
model and Malmquist index method to select the data of China's investment in 20 countries of Africa and conducts the … empirical research on dynamic evaluation of efficiency of China's direct investment in Africa. The result shows that the general … efficiency of China's direct investment in Africa is in a declined fluctuation trend, while the technical efficiency of the …
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The role of agricultural sector performance in attracting foreign direct investment in the food and beverages sector. Evidence from planned investments in Africa
Kubik, Zaneta - In: Agribusiness 39 (2023) 3, pp. 875-903
the standard specification of FDI determinants with a set of factors related to the agricultural sector performance …
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Management fees: Determinants and influence of legal limits. Evidence from Spanish pension funds
Alda, Mercedes; Ferruz, Luis - In: Estudios de Economía 40 (2013) 2, pp. 157-177
fund performance and the adverse impact of fees, although little work has been done on analysis of the determinants of fees … study the determinants of management fees in Spanish equity pension funds. We find a better fit in the CLAD model, which …
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Bayesian approach to the process of indentification of the determinants of innovativeness
Czyżewska, Marta; Mroczek, Teresa - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 10 (2014) 2, pp. 44-56
to generate the determinants influencing the innovativeness level of national economies.Qualitative analysis of the …
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Determinants and measures of export performance: Comprehensive literature review
Beleska-Spasova, Elena - In: Journal of Contemporary Economic and Business Issues 1 (2014) 1, pp. 63-74
variety of analytical and methodological approaches, (ii) conceptually diverse, a large number of determinants have been … inconsistent results of the impact of different determinants on export performance. …
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Socioeconomic determinants of use of reproductive health services in Ghana
Abekah-Nkrumah, Gordon; Abor, Patience Aseweh - In: Health Economics Review 6 (2016) 9, pp. 1-15
determinants using four rounds of Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys (1993, 1998, 2003 and 2008) data. Methods: The study uses … cross-sectional and pooled probit and negative bionomial regressions models to estimate the determinants of use of the above …
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The determinants of the propensity to receive publicly funded home care services for the elderly in Canada: A panel two-stage residual inclusion approach
Mery, Gustavo; Wodchis, Walter P.; Laporte, Audrey - In: Health Economics Review 6 (2016) 8, pp. 1-18
them. We explored the interrelationship between receipt of publicly funded HMPS and HHC, and the determinants of the … Survey (1994-95 to 2010-11). We found that there are in fact differences in the determinants of the likelihood of HHC and …, household arrangement, and income were found to be determinants of the propensity to receive both publicly funded HHC and HMPS …
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Determinants of initial public offerings: The case of Poland
Meluzín, Tomá; Zinecker, Marek; Lapi´nska, Justyna - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 18 (2014), pp. 5-17
The main objective of this study is to indicate the in uence of local macroeconomic factors, consequently GDP growth rates, the reference interest rate, industrial production growth rates, Warsaw Stock Exchange Index (WIG) returns and the volume of private equity investments, on the number of...
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Warum Väter ihre Erwerbstätigkeit (nicht) unterbrechen: Mikroökonomische versus in der Persönlichkeit des Vaters begründete Determinanten der Inanspruchnahme von Elternzeit durch V...
Vogt, Ann-Cathrin; Pull, Kerstin - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 24 (2010) 1, pp. 48-68
This paper explores the determinants of a father's decision to take parental leave. While the number of fathers in … microeconomic and personality based determinants of a father's decision to take parental leave. Our empirical analysis is based on … father's decision to take parental leave is more strongly influenced by economic determinants than by the father …
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