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- A Survey On Impediments To Trade And Foreign Direct Investment
- The globalization of economic activities has been accelerating rapidly as cross-border movements of goods, money, information, and people have expanded remarkably in last few years. Although globalization has allegedly brought some negative consequences such as widening income gaps among as well as within countries, on the whole it has had...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Globalization And International Conflict: Can FDI Increase Peace?
- This paper extends the analysis of the conflict-trade relationship by introducing Foreign Direct Investment FDI. Paper presents a formal model that shows why FDI can improve international relations. Then it proceeds to test the model empirically. The results in fact show that foreign direct investment plays a similar role to...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Foreign Direct Investment And Labor-Market Outcomes
- The multinationalization of production is perhaps the most striking and distinguishing characteristic of the process of globalization over the last two decades. The share of cross-border capital flows accounted for by the Foreign Direct Investment FDI of multinationals has been rising in last few years. This paper examines the relationship...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Sustainable Globalization and Emerging Economies: The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in Thailand
- Foreign direct investment is often considered as simultaneously being one of the consequences and drivers of globalisation. In the process of opening up economies to participate in some of the positive impacts of globalisation, countries position themselves in respect of attracting foreign direct investment. The Asian economic crisis has highlighted...
- White papers 2002-12-18
- Do Institutions Affect Foreign Direct Investment?
- This paper argues that countries whose governments are highly ranked according to various indices of the quality of institutions tend to do better in attracting foreign direct investment. In an empirical analysis of cross-section data, the paper finds that different aspects of the quality of institutions from a country (corruption,...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Does Foreign Direct Investment Help Emerging Economies?
- The gap between the world's rich and poor countries largely comes down to the financial and physical assets that create wealth. Developed economies possess more of this capital than developing ones, and what they have usually incorporates more advanced technologies. The implication is clear: A key aspect of economic advancement...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Trade Openness, Foreign Direct Investment And Child Labor
- The skeptics of globalization argue that increased trade openness and foreign direct investment induce developing countries to keep labor costs low, for example, by letting children work. This paper argues that there are good theoretical reasons why globalization might actually have the opposite effect. This is tested with various measures...
- White papers 2004-12-21
- Foreign Direct Investment As A Factor Of Acceleration Of The Transition Process And Its Role In The Process Of Privatization
- The spreading gap between rich and poor undeveloped countries indicates that there is a strong need for contrivance of such inductive approach for developing countries and countries in transition in contemporary world economy that will maximize the positive influence of globalization. The complexity of this problem is proven by the...
- White papers 2006-08-25
- Foreign Direct Investment In India: A Lost Opportunity
- Foreign Direct Investment FDI is an important component of every nation's efforts toward economic development and also is an integral part of the globalization of the world economy. All nations eagerly try to attract FDI. The success of any nation in attracting foreign investment is directly proportional to that nation's...
- White papers 2003-10-05
- Using Industrial Globalization To Improve The Development Of Host Countries
- What is the impact of Foreign Direct Investment FDI in manufacture and processing on the growth and economic welfare of developing countries? Are there dangers as well as opportunities associated with FDI? How can developing countries design policies toward FDI to capture the benefits and avoid harm? The answer to...
- White papers 2007-01-12
- FDI And Globalization In India
- FDI inflows were stimulated in industry and services, so benefiting from the many comparative advantages of the country (human resources, emerging market). They mainly came from the United States and Mauritius and concerned industrial sectors. In parallel, some Indian firms started to grow in importance and to invest abroad: they...
- White papers 2006-09-28
- Globalization And International Conflict: Can FDI Increase Peace As Trade Does?
- This paper extends the analysis of the conflict-trade relationship by introducing foreign direct investment. Furthermore, whereas most current analysis of the conflict-trade relationship examines historical data using COW, MIDS, or COPDAB, the authors employ the KEDS data with information for the 1990s. We justify using events data because events data...
- White papers 2004-11-30
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- Racing To The Bottom Or Climbing To The Top?: Foreign Direct Investment And Labor Rights Violations
- This paper addresses a key issue in debates regarding economic globalization: to what extent does the internationalization of production, via foreign direct investment, lead to increased abuses of workers in developing countries? Using a new dataset on collective labor rights violations, the relationship between foreign direct investment and labor rights...
- White papers 2004-05-31
- Trade And Foreign Direct Investment: How Do They Impact On Manufacturing Uruguayan Firms?
- Nowadays countries are more interdependent than ever. This increasing interdependence, named "Globalization", could be measured through the increase in trade flows, foreign direct investment and financial flows and labour movements between nations. The authors are interested in analysing the impact of these movements on developing countries. The evidence of positive...
- White papers 2006-03-08
- Foreign Direct Investment And Cost Uncertainty: Correlation And Learning Effects
- We examine a foreign firm's choice between exporting and Foreign Direct Investment FDI under country-specific cost uncertainty. Unlike exporting, FDI exposes foreign and home firms to the common shock. This results in the correlation of strategies which harms firms. However, the exposure to common shocks also benefits firms by enabling...
- White papers 2007-05-18
- Intel: A Case Study Of Foreign Direct Investment In Central America
- The attraction of Foreign Direct Investment FDI constitutes a fundamental element to support strategies that aim to achieve sustained economic growth in developing countries. This is because globalization and the attendant opening of the economies to competition require increased financial resources and technology, which would be impossible to obtain under...
- White papers 2003-03-19
- Foreign direct investment fuels global growth
- Companies invested $100 billion in operations in emerging economies in 1995, compared with $22 billion in new portfolio equity investments. FDI is the largest item in all net private capital flows to developing countries. One of the clearest signs of the globalization of the world economy is the surge in...
- Research articles 1997-01-01
- Export Outsourcing And Foreign Direct Investment
- Exporting and FDI Foreign Direct Investment have traditionally been two major firm-level responses to globalization. Export Outsourcing EO, a new strategy that gained in importance, has now become another alternative. This paper seeks to examine how firms choose between EO and outward FDI by looking into firm-level productivity differences. A...
- White papers 2005-05-10
- Export Platform FDI And Dualistic Development
- There is increasing growth in export platform foreign direct investment globally, reflecting both the international fragmentation of production associated with globalization and the adoption of policies to promote this type of investment as part of the "Export-led growth" strategies of developing economies. This paper explores the relationship between transnational corporations...
- White papers 2006-07-07
- Foreign Takeovers and the Canadian Dollar
- Since 1995, acquisitions of foreign firms by Canadian residents and acquisitions of Canadian firms by foreign residents have increased. Through most of this period, the dollar has depreciated, but the cumulative net balance of foreign direct investment acquisition flows has remained close to zero. The recent upward trend in bilateral...
- White papers 2002-05-08
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