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Globalization and the Human Development Trap

Mayer-Foulkes, David - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

development, it is not sufficient. Both trade and foreign direct investment create innovation assymetries hindering lagging … including a dynamic human development trap, endogenous technological change, technology transfer and trade. Divergent and … convergent steady states, with and without a human development trap, exist under both autarchy and free trade. The model explains …

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China, India, Brazil and South Africa in the World Economy: Engines of Growth?

Nayyar, Deepak - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

. In doing so, it considers the main channels of transmission, to focus on international trade, investment, finance and … potential. In future, these countries could also provide resources for investment and technologies for productivity. The …

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Dealing with Capital Inflows. Are There Any Lessons?

Reinhart, C.M.; Dunaway, S. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1996

This paper reviews the experience of a heterogeneous group of developing countries in maintaining macroeconomic stability in the face of heavy capital flows.

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Country Responses to Massive Capital Flows.

Montes, M.F. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1996

The emergence of a select group of developing countries as destinations for private portfolio investments in the 1990s (and the subsequent peso crisis in Mexico in 1994) has rekindled the old issues about the responsabilities and capacities public authorities have with regard to managing the...

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Aid as a catalyst for pioneer investment

Collier, Paul - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013

I discuss how aid can support growth in small, isolated economies. Small markets frustrate scale economies and competition. Combined with high transport costs, essential inputs become prohibitively expensive. Breaking the coordination problem requires pio

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Mozambique.s industrialization

Cruz, Antonio Sousa; Guambe, Dina; Marrengula, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2014

After the Second World War, Mozambique went through a series of transformations, from an incipient industrializing colonial society to an independent country with a central planned economy, plus a regional and internal war, and finally from 1994 onwards,

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Political Connections and Investment in Rural Vietnam

Tarp, Finn; Markussen, Thomas - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

political or bureaucratic power on farmers. agricultural investment decisions. Our main result is that households significantly … increase their investment in land improvement as a result of relatives moving into public office. Connections to office holders … appear to be important for investment because they strengthen de facto land property rights and improve access to off …

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Does Financial Liberalization Influence Saving, Investment and Economic Growth? Evidence from 25 Emerging Market Economies, 1973-96

Hermes, Niels; Lensink, Robert - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2005

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A Phoenix in Flames? Portfolio Choice and Violence in Civil War in Rural Burundi

Nillesen, Eleonora; Verwim, Philip - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

This paper challenges the idea that farmers revert to subsistence farming when confronted with violence from civil war. Macro-economic evidence on economic legacies of civil war suggests that civil wars, while obviously disastrous in the short run, do not

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Effect of the Liberalization of Investment Policies on Employment and Investment of Multinational Corporations in Africa

Asiedu, Elizabeth; Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007

benefit from globalization. This paper focuses on one aspect of globalization ? the liberalization of investment policies …, liberalization has a significant and positive effect on investment. Second, liberalization does not have a direct impact on … multinational employment. By increasing investment and employment from multinational firms, these liberalization programmes …

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