The catch-up of developing economies to advanced economies has been slower than some people predicted. The focus of this chapter is to present evidence and arguments that decentralized technology and distributed innovation may be changing the picture. If ASEAN governments allow decentralization...

The effects of FDI on export behavior of both recipients and non-recipient competing firms in the same sector often guides economic development policy. We estimate a Logit model of the probability of export and Pooled Tobit and Fixed and Random Effects Tobit models of the volume of exports using...

Is technology or trade driving increases in wage inequality? We propose that technology interacts with trade in the form of foreign direct investments to widen domestic wage inequality. We show that foreign acquisitions of domestic firms disproportionately affect wages for workers who perform...

A recent literature do cuments that manufacturing employment growth in developing countries has been sluggish over the past decades, and that deindustrialization has often set in at historically low levels of income. However, there is little evidence on which kind of jobs are disappearing...

The study largely attempts to examine the spillover from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Indian manufacturing by using the firm-level data for the period 2000-2009. With the use of Cobb-Douglas-type production function, it is observed that for the entire manufacturing sector, the impact of...