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Unions and Economic Performance in Developing Countries : Case Studies from Latin America
Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2014
This paper analyzes the economic impact of unions on productivity in the manufacturing sector across six Latin American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235243
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Unions and Economic Performance in Developing Countries : Case Studies from Latin America
Rios‐Avila, Fernando - 2014
This paper analyzes the economic impact of unions on productivity in the manufacturing sector across six Latin American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059249
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Productivity linkages between services and manufacturing: Firm-level evidence from developing countries
Shepherd, Ben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
associated with manufacturing productivity. Moreover, the link between productivity in services and manufacturing is particularly … strong for manufacturing firms that are more intensive in their use of services inputs. At the mean level of services input … use in the dataset, a 10% improvement in services productivity is associated with a 0.6% improvement in manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107779
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The effects of trade, aid, and investment on China's image in developing countries
Eichenauer, Vera; Fuchs, Andreas; Brückner, Lutz - 2018 - This version: March 2018
One goal of China's Go Out policy is to create goodwill in countries around the world. At the same time, China's growing economic engagement has provoked much criticism. This paper is the first to study whether these activities change the attitudes of individuals in developing countries towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818445
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Regional monetary cooperation in Latin America
Ocampo Gaviria, José Antonio; Titelman Kardonsky, Daniel - 2012
Latin American has the longest history of regional integration efforts in the developing world. This paper analyzes the experience of regional monetary cooperation in Latin America over the past three decades. This experience has been overall successful but also uneven, both in terms of country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579536
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Back to BITs and Bites : Do Trade and Investment Agreements Promote Foreign Direct Investment within Latin America?
Bengoa-Calvo, Marta - 2018
In this paper we investigate the impact of regional trade agreements (RTAs) and bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on intra-regional foreign direct investment (FDI) across Latin American countries from 1995 to 2012. We use an augmented gravity model in which we control for cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931765
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Regional Monetary Cooperation in Latin America
Ocampo, José Antonio - 2012
Latin American has the longest history of regional integration efforts in the developing world. This paper analyzes the experience of regional monetary cooperation in Latin America over the past three decades. This experience has been overall successful but also uneven, both in terms of country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102109
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The importance of manufacturing in economic development : has this changed?
Haraguchi, Nobuya; Cheng, Charles Fang Chin; Smeets, Eveline - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 93 (2017), pp. 293-315
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752029
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The role of manufacturing and service sectors in economic growth : an empirical study of developing countries
Attiah, Eman - In: European research studies 22 (2019) 1, pp. 112-127
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285906
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Impact of the people's republic of China's slowdown on the global economy
Dinda, Soumyananda - 2017
Across the world, researchers and business analysts are closely watching the People’s Republic of China (PRC), especially its recent economic slowdown. The Asia and Pacific region is extremely anxious about the PRC’s slowdown, but the rest of the world has a definite reason to worry about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011757623