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What role for Chinese FDI in Africa? New survey evidence from Ethiopia and Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Merchan, Federico - 2024

, in particular between Chinese and non-Chinese firms. Based on a firm level survey on Ethiopia and Ghana, we found that … & vertical spillover, directly adopting techniques). However, we found for Ghana that Chinese firms have more suppliers but are … firms in Ghana though not in Ethiopia. Also, there is little evidence that foreign firms transfer technology via horizontal …

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Innovation and knowledge spillovers in developing countries

Bascavusoglu, Elif - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate empirically the determinants of innovative activities in emerging countries, with particular attention to national, international and intersectoral knowledge spillovers. Our study concerns 16 emerging and 10 technology source countries, for the period...

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Foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers: A firm-level analysis of Bangladesh in comparison with Vietnam

Arif-Ur-Rahman, Md; Inaba, Kazuo - In: Journal of Economic Structures 10 (2021), pp. 1-23

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is expected to generate external effects - usually termed FDI spillovers - for a host country, and these spillovers are thought to have consequences on the productivity of domestic firms. Despite this strong expectation, the empirical findings on FDI spillover are...

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Innovations, high-tech trade and industrial development: Theory, evidence and policy

Singh, Lakhwinder - 2006

Innovations spur science-based trade and industrial development in a fast changing pace of globalization. Knowledge accumulation and diffusion have been increasingly recognised as fundamental factors that play an important role in long-run economic growth. This paper focuses on the long-term...

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Intellectual Property Rights and South-North Global Innovation Networks

Prarolo, Giovanni; Naghavi, Alireza; Comune, Maria - 2011

data from a new survey on Chinese and Indian firms in the ICT sector, we find IPR protection to be key in the engagement of …

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Is more mobility good? Firm mobility and the low wage-low productivity trap

Seguino, Stephanie - 2005

This paper explores the possibility that unregulated FDI flows are causally implicated in the decline in labor productivity growth in semi-industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to operate through the negative impact of firm mobility on worker bargaining power and thus...

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The geography and channels of diffusion at the world's technology frontier

Keller, Wolfgang - 2001

Convergence in per capita income turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or local. Global spillovers favor convergence, while a geographically limited scope of knowledge diffusion can lead to regional clusters of countries with persistently different levels of income per...

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Impact of institutional and regulatory quality on FDI inflow: Case of a developing Indian economy

Kaushal, Leena A. - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-21

The study examines the impact of regulatory & institutional quality (IQ) on FDI inflows, focusing on select factors to explain evolving FDI patterns in India over 2006-2019. India, one of the top 5 FDI attracting nations in the Asian region, is taking various measures to improve IQ and...

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Profit sharing under the threat of nationalization

Di Corato, Luca - 2010

A government bargains a mutually convenient agreement with a multinational corporation to extract a natural resource. The corporation bears the initial investment and earns as a return a share on the profits. The host country provides access and guarantee conditions of operation. Being the...

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Foreign direct investment, competition and industrial development in the host country

Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2004

This paper analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the development of local firms. We focus on two likely effects of FDI: a competition effect which deters entry of domestic firms and positive market externalities which foster the development of local industry. Using a simple...

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