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Some Thoughts on Making Long-Term Forecasts for the World Economy

Fardoust, Shahrokh - 2017

projections and scenario analysis. Such forecasting has become increasingly challenging, thanks to the rapid pace of globalization … the world urgently need to see the big picture if they are to deal with the specific challenges and opportunities they …-house researchers and global experts who work on state-of-the-art models related to globalization, technological progress and …

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Growth of Global Corporate Debt : Main Facts and Policy Challenges

Abraham, Facundo - 2020

This paper surveys the literature to document the main stylized facts, risks, and policy challenges related to the expansion of global nonfinancial corporate debt after the 2008–09 global financial crisis. Nonfinancial corporate debt steadily increased after the crisis, especially in emerging...

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How Does Long-Term Finance Affect Economic Volatility?

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017

This paper examines how the ability to access long-term debt affects firm-level growth volatility. The analysis finds that firms in industries with stronger preference to use long-term finance relative to short-term finance experience lower growth volatility in countries with better-developed...

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What Investors Want : Perceptions and Experiences of Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries

Kusek, Peter - 2018

This paper discusses the results of a survey of multinational corporations with affiliates in developing countries. The paper explores corporate perspectives and decision making across the stages of the investment cycle: attraction, entry and establishment, operations and expansion, linkages...

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Factor Endowments, Technology, Capital Mobility and the Sources of Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing

Hakobyan, Shushanik - 2017

Using data on net exports and factor endowments for more than 100 countries, this paper studies the relationship between factor endowments and comparative advantage in 28 manufacturing sectors between 1975 and 2010. The authors allow for systematic technological differences across countries,...

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The Internet as a General-Purpose Technology : Firm-Level Evidence from Around the World

Qiang, Christine Zhenwei - 2017

This paper uses firm-level data to assess whether telecommunication services are general-purpose technologies (technologies that benefit a large segment of the economy and have long-lasting effect). It finds that only Internet services are so: firm growth and productivity are much higher when...

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Innovation and Development Around the World, 1960-2000

Lederman, Daniel - 2005

The authors present a database of indicators of innovative activity around the world since the early 1960s. The data …

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Green Growth, Technology and Innovation

Dutz, Mark Andrew - 2017

The paper explores existing patterns of green innovation and presents an overview of green innovation policies for developing countries. The key findings from the empirical analysis are: (1) frontier green innovations are concentrated in high-income countries, few in developing countries but...

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What to Do When Foreign Direct Investment is Not Direct or Foreign : FDI Round Tripping

Aykut, Dilek; Sanghi, Apurva; Kosmidou, Gina - 2017

As globalization has intensified, multinational enterprises' investments have become a sophisticated set of financial …

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Beyond Capital : Monitoring Development Outcomes of Multinational Enterprises

Lejarraga, Iza - 2018

and 10 areas that matter for development. Building on decade-long data collection by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys …

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