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- Derivatives, the Shape of International Capital Flows and the Virtues of Prudential Regulation
- The paper studies the trend towards the use of securities as a vehicle to transfer capital to developing economies, and examines how it is linked to the increasing use of derivatives transactions in developing countries. It also provides a descriptive analysis of how each type of capital vehicle is associated...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Learning, Product Innovation And Firm Heterogeneity In Tanzania
- Using a unique firm level data set on learning and product innovation in Tanzanian manufacturing and commercial farming, this paper sheds light on the various sources as of firm learning, investment and collaboration and their relative importance for product innovation. The results indicate that larger and foreign owned firms invest...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Manufacturing, Services And Premature Deindustrialization In Developing Countries
- This paper uses a Kaldorian framework to examine the evidence of deindustrialization in developing countries at low levels of income, the jobless growth in these economies and the fast expansion of the informal sector. The questions are specifically examined for the Indian economy, using state level data but the analysis...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Foreign Direct Investment, Innovative Sources Of Development Finance And Domestic Resource Mobilization
- The Millennium Development Goals MDGs are now central to the work of the global development community. The MDGs represent ambitious but realizable goals, the achievement of which depends upon making rapid progress in the areas of trade, finance, and peace-building. This paper focuses on three important issues in financing development,...
- White papers 2004-08-10
- Foreign Direct Investment In Africa
- Data from several investor surveys suggest that macroeconomic instability, investment restrictions, corruption and political instability have a negative impact on Foreign Direct Investment FDI to Africa. However, the relationship between FDI and these country characteristics has not been studied. This paper uses panel data for 22 countries over the period...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- The Impact Of Innovation Activities On Productivity And Firm Growth: Evidence From Brazil
- Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation activities on firms' Total Factor Productivity TFP and its subsequent effect on firm growth, measured by sales. Controlling for size and age of the firms, productivity levels and productivity growth of firms...
- White papers 2007-01-15
- Productivity, Exports, Skills And Technological Capabilities
- This paper examines productivity, export-intensity, skills-intensity and technological differences between foreign and local firms in metal engineering, textile and garment, food and beverages, plastics and other industrial firms in Uganda using the technological capability framework. In metal engineering foreign firms enjoyed higher and statistically significant technology index, human resource, process...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Can FDI Increase Peace As Trade Does?
- This paper extends the analysis of the conflict-trade relationship by introducing FDI Foreign Direct Investment. It was justified using events data because events data contain both information on conflict as well as cooperation. The authors illustrate why concentrating solely on conflict leads to misleading conclusions. Indeed, two models were provided...
- White papers 2004-02-04
- Information And Intellectual Property: The Global Challenges
- The paper analyses the contribution of 'Golden papers' - seminal works whose ideas remain as fresh and relevant nowadays as when they were first published decades ago - and which continue to dominate academic discourse among successive generations of scholars. The authors analyse why two works written within an industrial...
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Foreign Direct Investment And Technology Spillovers: Evidence From The Indian Manufacturing Sector
- During the period, it is observed that many countries compete with each other to attract foreign investment. When MNCs MultiNational Companies invest in a host country, it is assumed that a part of their technology spills to the host country firms. But the empirical studies on spillover effects of FDI...
- White papers 2006-02-17
- The Causal Relationship Between ICT And FDI
- This paper investigates the simultaneous causal relationship between investments in Information and Communication Technology ICT and flows of Foreign Direct Investment FDI, with reference to its implications on economic growth. For the empirical analysis data from 23 major countries with heterogeneous economic development for the period 1976 - 99 were...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- 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
- Deregulation, Entry Of MNCs, Public Technology Procurement And Innovation Capability
- India has a sizeable telecom equipment manufacturing industry. The industry, which was originally dominated by just one state-owned corporation, has now been deregulated. Currently the industry consist of twelve SMEs, which manufacture small and medium switches and seven large firms of which five are TNCs manufacturing large switches). The country...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Learning New Technologies By SMEs In Developing Countries
- This paper, based on new field data, examines the ways in which Small And Medium Enterprises SMEs in selected developing countries learn to use and augment their core capabilities with new technologies. This paper presents three findings. First, there is clear evidence of increasing complexity in the adoption and use...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Economic Development Strategy, Openness and Rural Poverty
- This paper argues that both openness and poverty in a country are endogenously determined by the country's long-term economic development strategy. Development strategies can be broadly divided into two mutually exclusive groups: the Comparative Advantage-Defying CAD strategy, which attempts to encourage firms to deviate from the economy's existing comparative advantages...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Development Strategy, Viability, and Economic Institutions
- This paper explores the politically determined development objectives and the intrinsic logic of government intervention policies in east developed countries. It is argued that the distorted institutional structure in China and in many least developed countries, after the Second World War, can be largely explained by government adoption of inappropriate...
- White papers 2006-05-01
- The Corporate Debt Market: A Firm-Level Panel Study For India
- The pattern of economic development adopted by India was essentially based on centralized planning with a predominant role played by the public sector, in the absence of sufficiently developed corporate industrial and banking systems as well as an efficient market system to foster growth of secondary and tertiary activities. While...
- White papers 2006-05-01
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- Delta Air Lines and the University of Georgia award the 2002 Delta Prize for Global Understanding to Former United Nations High Commissioner for refugees Sadako Ogata.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-27 February 2002-DELTA AIR LINES: Delta Air Lines and the University of Georgia award the 2002 Delta Prize for Global Understanding to Former United Nations High Commissioner for refugees Sadako Ogata C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:27022002 ATLANTA --...
- Research articles 2002-02-27
- United Nations to mark Yale's Tercentennial with cancellation stamp; U.S. Postal Service to issue commemorative postal card.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-28 March 2001-YALE UNIVERSITY: United Nations to mark Yale's Tercentennial with cancellation stamp; U.S. Postal Service to issue commemorative postal card C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:27032001 New Haven, Conn. -- In recognition of Yale University's 300th anniversary,...
- Research articles 2001-03-28
- United Nations Officials, Ambassadors, Academics To Highlight American University Conference On Evaluating The Millennium Summit, Oct. 11-12
- WHO: AU's Center for the Global South, United Nations Officials, other DignitariesWHAT: Evaluating the Millennium SummitWHEN: Oct. 11-12, 2000WHERE: 6th Floor, Butler Pavilion, American University, 4400 Mass. Ave., NW, WashingtonHigh-level dignitaries from around the world will gather at American University(www.american.edu) for an Oct. 11-12 conference to evaluate...
- Research articles 1970-01-01
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