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Agglomeration Economies, Economic Growth and the New Economic Geography in Mexico

Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2005

growth and agglomerations in Mexico between 1994 and 2000. The results also indicate that job growth and FDI are not …

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Endogenous Growth Models in Open Economies: A Possibility of Permanent Current Account Deficits

Harashima, Taiji - EconWPA - 2005

The paper explores the impacts of heterogeneity in degree of relative risk aversion on the balance on current account in a two-country endogenous growth model. It concludes that, like the heterogeneity of demographic changes, the heterogeneity in degree of relative risk aversion generates...

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Does China have an impact on foreign direct investment to Latin America?

Santabarbara, Daniel; Garcia-Herrero, Alicia - EconWPA - 2005

We analyze empirically whether the emergence of China as a large recipient of FDI has affected the amount of FDI … find a substitution from Latin American inward FDI to China, when other relevant factors are taken into account. However …, concentrating on the last few years (from 1995 to 2001), when FDI boomed worldwide and negotiations for China’s WTO membership …

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Does China have an impact on foreign direct investment to Latin America?

Garcia-Herrero, Alicia; Santabarbara, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005

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Environmental Technology Transfer in a FDI Regime A Developing Country Perspective

One, Author; Two, Author; Thirdone, U. - EconWPA - 2002

The environmental impact of Foreign Direct Investment is still to be explored totally. It is often argued that investment may come to a region or country where environment protection norms are less strict. Investors may be induced to outsource their pollution-intensive production where the...

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Early Starts, Reversals and Catchup in The Process of Economic Development

Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - EconWPA - 2004

Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...

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WHO IS AFRAID OF POLITICAL INSTABILITY?

Campos, Nauro F.; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - EconWPA - 2001

An unstable macroeconomic environment is often regarded as detrimental to economic growth. Among the sources contributing to such instability, much of the blame has been assigned to political issues. This paper empirically tests for a causal and negative long-run relationship between political...

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Ideas for Growth?

Maré, David. C. - EconWPA - 2004

There is much talk of the knowledge economy, and the central role of ideas and knowledge in generating economic growth. This paper provides a brief review of the economic literature on how skills/ knowledge/ ideas might contribute to higher output or higher rates of growth. Ideas are...

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The Influence of Capital Controls on Long Run Growth: Where and How Much?

Chanda, Areendam - EconWPA - 2002

The recent financial crisis in East Asia generated a revival of interest in the merits of financial openness. The ensuing debate on the benefits of openness has focused more on short and medium run issues than on the long run effects. Within the empirical literature on economic growth, little or...

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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow

Holz, Carsten A. - EconWPA - 2005

Views of the future China vary widely. While some believe that the collapse of China is inevitable, others see the emergence of a new superpower that increasingly poses a threat to the U.S. This paper examines the economic growth prospects of China over the next two decades. Extrapolating past...

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