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Determinants of, and the Relation Between, Foreign Direct Investment and Growth; A Summary of the Recent Literature

Lim, Ewe-Ghee - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

economic growth and its determinants. The first part focuses on recent literature regarding positive spillovers from FDI while … spillovers from FDI, there is no consensus on causality. On determinants, the paper finds that market size, infrastructure …

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Foreign Direct Investment in Southeastern Europe; How (And How Much) Can Policies Help?

Ribakova, Elina; Horváth, Balázs; Demekas, Dimitri G.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

Gravity factors explain a large part of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows in Southeastern Europe-a region not comprehensively covered before in econometric studies-but hostcountry policies also matter. Key are policies that affect relative unit labor costs, the corporate tax burden,...

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Foreign Direct Investment in Africa; Some Case Studies

Basu, Anupam; Srinivasan, Krishna - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This paper reviews the experiences of a few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that have succeeded in attracting fairly large amounts of foreign investment. The review indicates that sustained efforts to promote political and macroeconomic stability and implement essential structural reforms have...

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Why Does Fdi Go Where it Goes? New Evidence From the Transition Economies

Kinoshita, Yuko; Campos, Nauro F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper examines the importance of agglomeration economies and institutions vis-a-vis initial conditions and factor endowments in explaining the locational choice of foreign investors. Using a unique panel data set for 25 transition economies between 1990 and 1998, we find that the main...

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Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth; Firm-Level Evidence From the United States

Yeaple, Stephen R.; Keller, Wolfgang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment … gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 11 percent of … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for import-related spillovers, but it …

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Inward and Outward Spillovers in the SACU Area

Kriljenko, Jorge Iván Canales; Gwenhamo, Farayi; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

Spillovers from South Africa into the other members of the Souther Africa Customs Union (known as the BLNS for … group. Nevertheless, vector autoregressions, which allow country-specific parameters, suggest some strong spillovers onto …

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People's Republic of China; Spillover Report for the 2011 Article IV Consultation and Selected Issues.

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

, estimating Chinaâ€™s spillovers, elasticities approach, factor pricing, overcapacity, and sustainability risks. It elaborates on …

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Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Investment; The Case of Developing Countries

Al-sadiq, Ali J - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition economies has increased significantly. Given the role of physical capital accumulation in determining the economic growth rate, it is important to assess how domestic investment...

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What Drives the Global Land Rush?

Selod, Harris; Deininger, Klaus W.; Arezki, Rabah - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...

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Chile; Institutions and Policies Underpinning Stability and Growth

Kalter, Eliot; Phillips, Steven; Singh, Manmohan; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

This paper presents the primary institutions and economic policies that have led to Chileâ€™s remarkable record of stability and growth over the past twenty years. The core of this policy stance is the combination of fiscal discipline and an open trade policy regime, together with carefully...

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