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Challenges of doing business in Africa : a systematic review
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2018
This paper provides a systematic review of challenges to doing business in Africa. It complements the extant literature by answering two critical questions: what are the linkages between the ease of doing business and economic development; and what are the challeng es to doing business in...
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Truth behind economic performance, natural resources and attracting foreign direct investment
Palma, Arthelo P. - In: Expert journal of economics 4 (2016) 2, pp. 68-77
Using a preliminary investigation and analysis on the latest data on GDP (Gross Domestic Product) performance, GOI (Global Opportunity Index), Vulnerability Score, Readiness Score, and the number of resources of economic importance, exploratory or preliminary SEM (structural equation modelling)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062585
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Sharing the Experience of Diaspora Investment Governance : Lessons from a Chinese Island Economy
Ye, Zhen (Peter) - 2014
This paper explores the dynamic of investment governance from the perspective of Diaspora investment governance in an island economy in China. It is not a study of investment governance as understood in the conventional developed sense. The study took place in a system absent of business angel,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149306
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Investment and Expropriation under Oligarchy and Democracy in a Heckscher-Ohlin World
Albornoz, Facundo; Galiani, Sebastián; Heymann, Daniel - 2008
We study the incentives to expropriate foreign capital under democracy and oligarchy. We model a two-sector small open economy where foreign investment triggers Stolper-Samuelson effects through reducing exporting costs. We show how incentives to expropriate depend on the distributional effects...
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Political Regimes and Foreign Intervention
Aidt, Toke - 2010
We present a theory of endogenous political regimes that emphasizes foreign direct investment as a motive for foreign governments to either induce regime transitions or promote regime consolidations. We characterize diff erent forms of foreign intervention and identify the conditions under which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147575
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Determinants of global value chain participation : cross-country evidence
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Kee, Hiau Looi; Winkler, Deborah - 2020
The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...
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Development in Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018
The purpose of the chapter is to analyze Africa's economic successes in the past half century, to understand not only what made it possible but also and more importantly what risk factors may eventually bring it to an end or compromise it. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794986
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Investment in the Shadow of Conflict : Globalization, Capital Control, and State Repression
Shadmehr, Mehdi - 2018
the implications of these feedback channels on the interactions between globalization, capital control, state repression …, and regime change. I show that processes that facilitate capital movements (e.g., globalization, economic modernization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014120693
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Globalisation, Multinational Companies and Emerging Markets
Haller, Alina - 2017
Globalisation, far from meeting esoteric meaning requirements – everybody's welfare –, created the conditions for a stronger and stronger presence of multinational companies, economic giants who did not avoid emerging markets, quite the contrary. The attraction of profit oriented the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952099
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Financial development dynamic thresholds of financial globalization : evidence from Africa
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
globalization remains open to debate in the literature. In this paper, we try to put some empirical structure on the concept of … object is to assess if financial benefits of financial globalization are questionable until greater domestic financial … the financial development benefits of financial globalization. The estimation approach consists of assessing the impact of …
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