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- Reversal of Fortunes: Democratic Institutions And Foreign Direct Investment Inflows To Developing Countries
- The article argues that democratic institutions have conflicting effects on FDI inflows. On the one hand, democratic institutions hinder FDI inflows. They tend to limit the oligopolistic or monopolistic behaviors of multinational enterprises, facilitate indigenous businesses' pursuit of protection from foreign capital, and constrain host governments' ability to offer generous...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- External Capital Structure-Theory And Evidence
- Recent years have witnessed a change in the composition of capital flows to developing countries, and FDI and equity flows have been playing an increasing role. In this article, one discusses the challenges for international macroeconomics that these developments pose and characterize stylized facts associated with the structure of external...
- White papers 2000-08-01
- Reversal Of Fortunes: Democracy, Property Rights And Foreign Direct Investment Inflows To Developing Countries
- The question this article addresses is does increased democracy promote or jeopardize Foreign Direct Investment FDI inflows to Less Developed Countries LDCs. It argues that democracy affects FDI inflows through competing causal avenues. On one hand, the higher levels of political participation and representation that are part of more democratic...
- White papers 2001-10-19
- FDI In Landlocked Developing Countries At A Glance
- The paper begins by identifying the factors unique to landlocked countries that affect FDI Foreign Direct Investment inflows to them. It seeks to develop an understanding of both the nature of the barriers to FDI that remoteness from and lack of national access to seaports creates, and their magnitude. This...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- FDI In The Telecommunication Sectors Of Transition And Developing Countries
- The international structure of the telecommunication market is changing rapidly, shaped by waves of privatization, technological progress and international activism of Multinational Companies and former national monopolists. With the signature of Agreement on Basic Telecommunications and the Reference Paper of 1997, 69 member countries of the WTO have engaged in...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- The Determinants Of Liberalization Of FDI Policy In Developing Countries
- The decade of the 1990s was characterized by widespread liberalization of law and regulation affecting inflows of Foreign Direct Investment FDI in developing countries.. Ninety-five percent of the changes in FDI policy over the decade were liberalizing rather than restrictive. Two possible explanations of liberalization are posited: policy makers' beliefs...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Flow Of Foreign Direct Investment To Hitherto Neglected Developing Countries
- The last decade or so has witnessed rather dramatic increases in the flow of Foreign Direct Investment FDI to the developing countries of the world. However, the balance of evidence seems to point in one direction, the inflow has been uneven. Middle-income developing countries have benefited from this upsurge at...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Investment Facilitation And Regulation In Developing Countries
- Even those living in the remotest corners of the globe; palpably feel the irreversible impacts of globalisation - both negative and positive. This fact poses numerous challenges for policymakers at all levels across countries, more particularly in the developing world. One of these challenges stems from a widespread concern that...
- White papers 2006-02-16
- Does Foreign Direct Investment Harm The Host Country's Environment?: Evidence From China
- As more manufacturing is moved to the developing countries, policy makers become concerned with the environmental consequence. Relatively lenient environmental policies in the developing countries may give them a comparative advantage in pollution intensive goods, and openness to trade and foreign direct investment might harm the host country's environment. This...
- White papers 2006-04-12
- Trade, FDI And Technology Diffusion In Developing Countries: The Role Of Human Capital And Institutions
- This paper examines the impact of inflows of foreign knowledge on economic development, in the context of different institutional development and differing levels of human capital. It employ threshold regression analysis based on Hansen (2000) to determine whether there is cross-country heterogeneity in the flows of foreign knowledge from advanced...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- International Trade, Economic Growth And Intellectual Property Rights
- This paper examines the role of high-technology trade, IPRs Intellectual Property Rights and FDI Foreign Direct Investment in determining a country's rate of innovation and economic growth. The empirical analysis is conducted using a unique panel data set of 47 developed and developing countries from 1970 to 1990. The results...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Political Institutions And Foreign Direct Investment In Developing Countries
- In the 1990s, Foreign Direct Investment FDI became the largest single source of external finance in the developing world. Not only is FDI increasingly important in quantitative terms, it also has a number of qualitative characteristics important to developing countries. It is less volatile than portfolio flows, does not require...
- White papers 2006-09-28
- Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Increase Foreign Direct Investment To Developing Countries?
- Foreign investors are often skeptical toward the quality of the domestic institutions and the enforceability of the law in developing countries. Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT's) guarantee certain standards of treatment that can be enforced via binding investor-to-state dispute settlement outside the domestic juridical system. Developing countries accept restrictions on their...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- The Changing Structure Of Tax Policies For Foreign Direct Investment In Developing Countries
- Countries receiving substantial foreign direct investment are relying less on tax holidays than on low corporate tax rate regimes. Although it is still popular to provide accelerated depreciation, investment allowances or other incentives for capital investments, the most innovative incentives in the 1990s have been to lower corporate income tax...
- White papers 2004-05-21
- Regional Integration And Foreign Direct Investment In Developing Countries
- The empirical paper offers little guidance on whether some regions are more successful in attracting FDI Foreign Direct Investment than others. The authors bring together two differing approaches (detailed descriptions of regions and studies estimating effects econometrically based on 0/1 dummies) and estimate model explaining the real stock of UK...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Do Double Taxation Treaties Increase Foreign Direct Investment To Developing Countries?
- Developing countries invest time and other scarce resources to negotiate and conclude Double Taxation Treaties DTTs with developed countries. They also accept a loss of tax revenue as such treaties typically favour residence-based over source-based taxation and developing countries are typically net capital importers. The incurred costs can only pay...
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Foreign Direct Investment And The Business Environment In Developing Countries
- The effects of Bilateral Investment Treaties on FDI Foreign Direct Investment and the domestic business environment remain unexplored despite the proliferation of treaties over the past several years. This paper asks whether BITs Bilateral Investment Treaties stimulate FDI flows to host countries, and if the treaties have any impact on...
- White papers 2005-01-03
- Quality of Institutions And Foreign Direct Investment In Developing Countries
- This paper analyzes the short-run and long-run dynamics between quality of institutions and Foreign Direct Investment FDI in the sample of 62 developing countries covering period 1984-2003. Panel cointegration test and FM OLS Fully Modified OLS estimators are used to test for cointegration. For short-run dynamics, we estimate error correction...
- White papers 2006-06-04
- Foreign Direct Investment In Infrastructure In Developing Countries: Does Regulation Make A Difference?
- Since the mid-1980s, governments around the world have pursued policies to encourage private sector participation in the financing and delivery of infrastructure services. The natural monopoly characteristics of infrastructure utilities mean, however, that the privatization of these industries risks the creation of private-sector monopolies. Therefore, governments need to develop strong...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Foreign Direct Investment To Developing Countries In The Globalised World
- This paper discusses the key issues related to foreign direct investment flows to developing countries in the globalised world. In particular, the paper focuses on the trend and direction of foreign direct investment flows to developing countries and the uneven distribution of the flows among the countries. Furthermore, the paper...
- White papers 2003-09-10
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