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Geography in Motion: World Development Report 2009 (excerpt)
World Bank - In: Transnational Corporations Review 1 (2009) 3, pp. 40-46
This study from the World Bank calls for a rebalancing of policy discussions and shows how to use the three dimensions of density, distance, and division to tailor policy instruments to address integration challenges ranging from the relatively straightforward to the very complex.
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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009
"Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using data on firms in 27 transition economies, the authors test for the effects of globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign...
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes : cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep - 2009
"This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
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Firms' productive performance and the investment climate in developing economies : an application to MENA manufacturing
Kinda, Tidiane - 2009
constitute a powerful means of industrial development and competitiveness, in the Middle East and North Africa region in …
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Does gender matter for firm performance? : evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Sabarwal, Shwetlena - 2008
"Using 2005 firm level data for 26 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, this paper estimates performance gaps between male and female-owned businesses, while controlling for location by industry and country. The findings show that female entrepreneurs have a significantly smaller scale of...
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Releasing constraints to growth or pushing on a string? : the impact of credit, training, business associations, and taxes on the performance of Mexican micro-firms
Fajnzylber, Pablo - 2006
participation in various societal institutions on microfirm performance in Mexico. They find that firms that participate in credit … controlling for the various factors that drive participation in those institutions. They also find that firms that borrow from …-firms are more likely to be selected into participating in societal institutions, causality also runs in the opposite direction …
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Enforcement of labor regulation, informal labor, and firm performance
Almeida, Rita - 2005
"This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, the authors...
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Gifted kids or pushy parents? : foreign acquisitions and plant performance in Indonesia
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2005
"This paper uses micro data from the Indonesian Census of Manufacturing to analyze the causal relationship between foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of the FDI decision, the difference in differences approach is combined with a matching technique....
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Direct support to private firms : evidence on effectiveness
Batra, Geeta - 2003
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