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Developing Economies and International Investors : Do Investment Promotion Agencies Bring them Together?

Harding, Torfinn; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska - 2012

Many countries spend significant resources on investment promotion agencies in the hope of attracting inflows of foreign direct investment. Despite the importance of this question for public policy choices, little is known about the effectiveness of investment promotion efforts. This study uses...

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Does a Country Need a Promotion Agency to Attract Foreign Direct Investment : A Small Analytical Model Applied to 58 Countries

Morisset, Jacques - 2003

Establishing an investment promotion agency has become a central part of most countries' development strategies. Today there are more than 150 investment promotion agencies worldwide. Yet very little is known about what these agencies have been really doing, notably in emerging countries, and...

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On the Unequal Inequality of Poor Communities

Elbers, Chris; Lanjouw, Peter; Mistiaen, Johan - 2013

Important differences exist between communities with respect to their needs, capacities, and circumstances. As central governments are not able to discern these differences fully, they seek to achieve their policy objectives by relying on decentralized mechanisms that use local information....

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Investment Climate and International Integration

Dollar, David; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Mengistae, Taye - 2013

Drawing on recently completed firm-level surveys in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Honduras, India, Nicaragua, Pakistan … get a telephone line, sales lost to power outages). For many of these costs, the obstacles are lower in China than in the … for investment and production. This paper helps explain why China has been so successful over the past decade, both in …

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The Impact of Investment Policy in a Changing Global Economy : A Review of the Literature

Echandi, Roberto; Krajcovicova, Jana; Qiang, Christine … - 2015

Evidence shows that foreign direct investment can provide many benefits to host countries, including productivity improvements, better jobs, and knowledge transfer. Further, it can serve as a vehicle for transformation of domestic production and better integration with global value chains....

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Improving Russia's Policy on Foreign Direct Investment

Bergsman, Joel; Broadman, Harry G.; Drebencov, Vladimir - 2000

Foreign direct investment brings host countries capital, productive facilities, and technology transfers as well as employment, new job skills, and management expertise. It is important to the Russian Federation, where incentives for competition are limited and incentives to becoming efficient...

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Regional Dimensions of Recent Weakness in Investment : Drivers, Investment Needs and Policy Responses

Chen, Derek Hung Chiat; Kambou, Gérard; Nandwa, Boaz; … - 2017

Investment growth in many emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) has slowed sharply since 2010. Investment growth performance has varied significantly across different regions, however. This paper examines the temporal evolution of investment growth in six EMDE regions, documents...

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Weakness in Investment Growth : Causes, Implications and Policy Responses

Islamaj, Ergys; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Ye, Lei - 2017

Investment growth in emerging market and developing economies has slowed sharply since 2010. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the causes and implications of this slowdown and presents a menu of policy responses to improve investment growth. It reports four main results. First, the...

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Do Capital Inflows Boost Growth in Developing Countries? : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Calderón, César A.; Nguyen, Ha - 2015

This paper examines whether domestic output growth helps attract capital inflows and, in turn, capital inflows help boost output growth in a set of 38 Sub-Saharan African countries. Using a two-step approach to address reverse causality and omitted variable issues, the paper finds that output...

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Measuring the Determinants of Backward Linkages from FDI in Developing Economies : Is it a Matter of Size?

Antoine, Kassia; Piniés Bianchi, Jaime de; … - 2015

The main focus of the paper is the measurement of the potential for externalities related to foreign direct investment. A series of novel proxies are drawn from the Enterprise Survey database of the World Bank-IFC and tested against hypotheses considered in the foreign direct investment...

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