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Developing Economies and International Investors : Do Investment Promotion Agencies Bring Them Together?

Harding, Torfinn - 2016

Many countries spend significant resources on investment promotion agencies in the hope of attracting inflows of foreign direct investment. Despite the importance of this question for public policy choices, little is known about the effectiveness of investment promotion efforts. This study uses...

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What Investors Want : Perceptions and Experiences of Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries

Kusek, Peter - 2018

This paper discusses the results of a survey of multinational corporations with affiliates in developing countries. The … interviews with 754 executives, the survey finds that political stability and a business-friendly regulatory environment are the … predictable, transparent, and efficient conduct of public agencies. The survey results also show that investors are heterogeneous …

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The Political Economy of Direct Dividend Transfers in Resource-Rich Countries : A Theoretical Consideration

McGuirk, Eoin - 2017

The acceleration of natural resource discoveries across many parts of the developing world has highlighted the urgent need for solutions to the mismanagement of windfalls that has blighted many countries over the past half-century. One proposal involves distributing annually a share of resource...

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Do Capital Inflows Boost Growth in Developing Countries? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Calderón, César - 2017

This paper examines whether domestic output growth helps attract capital inflows and, in turn, capital inflows help boost output growth in a set of 38 Sub-Saharan African countries. Using a two-step approach to address reverse causality and omitted variable issues, the paper finds that output...

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Measuring the Determinants of Backward Linkages from FDI in Developing Economies : Is it a Matter of Size?

Sanchez-Martin, Miguel Eduardo - 2017

. A series of novel proxies are drawn from the Enterprise Survey database of the World Bank-IFC and tested against …

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Does FDI Bring Good Jobs to Host Countries?

Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2017

Are jobs created by foreign investors good jobs? The evidence reviewed in this article is consistent with the view that jobs created by FDI are good jobs, both from the worker's and the country's perspective. From the worker's perspective, this is because such jobs are likely to pay higher wages...

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Surges and Stops in FDI Flows to Developing Countries : Does the Mode of Entry Make a Difference?

Burger, Martijn J. - 2017

This paper investigates the factors associated with foreign direct investment "surges" and "stops," defined as sharp increases and decreases, respectively, of gross foreign direct investment inflows to the developing world and differentiated based on whether these events are led by waves in...

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Attracting Foreign Direct Investment : What Can South Asia's Lack of Success Teach Other Developing Countries?

Gould, David - 2017

Like many other developing countries, South Asian nations have been experiencing increased foreign direct investment inflows over the past decade as developing countries get a larger share of cross-border investments that were once sent to developed countries. Nonetheless, South Asia's inflows...

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Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework : The Role of Mediating Factors for FDI Spillovers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Farole, Thomas - 2017

Using a cross-section of more than 25,000 domestic manufacturing firms in 78 low and middle-income countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper assesses how mediating factors influence intra-industry productivity spillovers to domestic firms from foreign direct investment. It...

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Sovereign Defaults and Expropriations : Empirical Regularities

Eden, Maya - 2017

This paper uses a large cross-country dataset to empirically examine factors associated with sovereign defaults on external private creditors and expropriation of foreign direct investments in developing countries since the 1970s. In the long run, sovereign defaults and expropriations are likely...

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