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... and further contended that when investments are market-seeking, trade restrictions, and, for that matter, less openness, can have a positive impact on FDI because the foreign firms that are being restricted from importing into host countries can decide to set up subsidiaries in the host countries. I ...
... and further contended that when investments are market-seeking, trade restrictions, and, for that matter, less openness, can have a positive impact on FDI because the foreign firms that are being restricted from importing into host countries can decide to set up subsidiaries in the host countries. I ...
Convergence and Catching Up in South
... The formation of ASEAN can be attributed to geographical proximity and regional economic and political co-operation among its member countries. In the past thirty years, the ASEAN-5 countries that differ considerably in size, level of economic development and resource endowment have undergone profou ...
... The formation of ASEAN can be attributed to geographical proximity and regional economic and political co-operation among its member countries. In the past thirty years, the ASEAN-5 countries that differ considerably in size, level of economic development and resource endowment have undergone profou ...
The Importance of Manufacturing in Economic - unu
... developing country, it would take the form of a growth spurt. Productivity growth in the late developer would be much more rapid than in the technologically leading country and the late developer would start catching up. According to Gerschenkron, the role of government policy and large financial co ...
... developing country, it would take the form of a growth spurt. Productivity growth in the late developer would be much more rapid than in the technologically leading country and the late developer would start catching up. According to Gerschenkron, the role of government policy and large financial co ...
Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A
... Affiliate employment of German and Swedish MNEs roughly doubled over the course of the 1990s. In Germany, employment at the parent firms increased over this period as well. At face value, these facts do not provide evidence in support of the widely held opinion that German MNEs have shifted employme ...
... Affiliate employment of German and Swedish MNEs roughly doubled over the course of the 1990s. In Germany, employment at the parent firms increased over this period as well. At face value, these facts do not provide evidence in support of the widely held opinion that German MNEs have shifted employme ...
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... Affiliate employment of German and Swedish MNEs roughly doubled over the course of the 1990s. In Germany, employment at the parent firms increased over this period as well. At face value, these facts do not provide evidence in support of the widely held opinion that German MNEs have shifted employme ...
... Affiliate employment of German and Swedish MNEs roughly doubled over the course of the 1990s. In Germany, employment at the parent firms increased over this period as well. At face value, these facts do not provide evidence in support of the widely held opinion that German MNEs have shifted employme ...
Structural Development Accounting - UZH
... With our preferred parameterization, we use the model to perform a series of counterfactuals. First, we show that removing barriers to technology adoption would increase gross domestic product per worker (GDP pw) relative to the US from 0.19 to 0.61 for the average non-OECD country and from 0.68 to ...
... With our preferred parameterization, we use the model to perform a series of counterfactuals. First, we show that removing barriers to technology adoption would increase gross domestic product per worker (GDP pw) relative to the US from 0.19 to 0.61 for the average non-OECD country and from 0.68 to ...
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... Affiliate employment of German and Swedish MNEs roughly doubled over the course of the 1990s. In Germany, employment at the parent firms increased over this period as well. At face value, these facts do not provide evidence in support of the widely held opinion that German MNEs have shifted employme ...
... Affiliate employment of German and Swedish MNEs roughly doubled over the course of the 1990s. In Germany, employment at the parent firms increased over this period as well. At face value, these facts do not provide evidence in support of the widely held opinion that German MNEs have shifted employme ...
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... ative country size of the U.S. has been maintained around 25% throughout the 1980s and gradually declined since the early 1990s. It has fallen at even quicker rate in the subsequent periods, reaching 20% in the late 2000. From a di¤erent perspective, Figure 3 displays the relative importance of the ...
... ative country size of the U.S. has been maintained around 25% throughout the 1980s and gradually declined since the early 1990s. It has fallen at even quicker rate in the subsequent periods, reaching 20% in the late 2000. From a di¤erent perspective, Figure 3 displays the relative importance of the ...
Trade in Tasks, Tariff Policy and Effective Protection Rates
... exchange rate as measured by the relative price of products on the home market with respect to the international ones. We only mention those aspects as one of the many possible uses of EPRs from a contemporaneous perspective, without entering more in details in their analysis: introducing changes in ...
... exchange rate as measured by the relative price of products on the home market with respect to the international ones. We only mention those aspects as one of the many possible uses of EPRs from a contemporaneous perspective, without entering more in details in their analysis: introducing changes in ...
Fiscal Federalism in Planned Economies
... regional resource transfers which, often are invisible, it is difficult to taken them into account in the explicit transfer systems. In this section, some important characteristics of the planned economies with implications for assignment of taxes and expenditures on the one hand, and creating invi ...
... regional resource transfers which, often are invisible, it is difficult to taken them into account in the explicit transfer systems. In this section, some important characteristics of the planned economies with implications for assignment of taxes and expenditures on the one hand, and creating invi ...
A Development-focused Allocation of the Special Drawing Rights
... The campaign for the issue of development-focused Special Drawing Rights (SDR) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been on the development agenda for many years. This was certainly reflected by the Brandt Commission’s report (1970). In more recent times the campaign has been propelled, firs ...
... The campaign for the issue of development-focused Special Drawing Rights (SDR) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been on the development agenda for many years. This was certainly reflected by the Brandt Commission’s report (1970). In more recent times the campaign has been propelled, firs ...
The State of Public Finances: Outlook and Medium-Term Policies
... raised in almost all countries. Guarantees provided in Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the U.S. are particularly large, relative to GDP. ...
... raised in almost all countries. Guarantees provided in Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the U.S. are particularly large, relative to GDP. ...
Prospects for the UK economy - Learning and Work Institute England
... • Lifting barriers in Germany may divert some EU8+2 workers away from the UK and towards Germany, especially given the relative strength of the German economy compared to the UK • By 31 December 2011, the UK will have to decide whether to extend current restrictions on labour market access to citize ...
... • Lifting barriers in Germany may divert some EU8+2 workers away from the UK and towards Germany, especially given the relative strength of the German economy compared to the UK • By 31 December 2011, the UK will have to decide whether to extend current restrictions on labour market access to citize ...
Munshi(209).pdf
... immigration, and mobility of goods, services, and capital are some aspects that have been subject to empirical analysis. In this paper we consider two dimensions of globalization: openness to trade and openness to capital. We separate the sample into developed and developing countries, since globali ...
... immigration, and mobility of goods, services, and capital are some aspects that have been subject to empirical analysis. In this paper we consider two dimensions of globalization: openness to trade and openness to capital. We separate the sample into developed and developing countries, since globali ...
Trade Elasticities - European Commission
... We select sequentially which CCE to include, starting with all three of them. We drop whichever terms are not signi…cant, and iterate until all included CCE are signi…cant. This procedure is implemented on the version of equation (9) where sectoral heterogeneity is assumed away. In practice, we end ...
... We select sequentially which CCE to include, starting with all three of them. We drop whichever terms are not signi…cant, and iterate until all included CCE are signi…cant. This procedure is implemented on the version of equation (9) where sectoral heterogeneity is assumed away. In practice, we end ...
Use of Exchange Rates as Approximate PPPs for Machinery and
... and equipment from abroad. When the export/import transaction is between two subsidiaries of the same enterprise, an artificial exchange rate may be used that is designed to give a tax advantage to one or other of the subsidiaries. National statistical offices will not usually have information about ...
... and equipment from abroad. When the export/import transaction is between two subsidiaries of the same enterprise, an artificial exchange rate may be used that is designed to give a tax advantage to one or other of the subsidiaries. National statistical offices will not usually have information about ...
Diapositiva 1 - UNIDO ITPO Italy
... development of Sub-Saharan Africa, a critical area for the creation of economic partnerships and the promotion of foreign investment. It is also a priority region for Italy, the UN System, and UNIDO itself. In 2007/8, the intense joint promotional activities of ITPO Italy and the Delegates from Côte ...
... development of Sub-Saharan Africa, a critical area for the creation of economic partnerships and the promotion of foreign investment. It is also a priority region for Italy, the UN System, and UNIDO itself. In 2007/8, the intense joint promotional activities of ITPO Italy and the Delegates from Côte ...
Channels and Determinants for International Technology
... working conditions. New products may also appear in these developing countries with technology diffusion. Generally, technology diffusion comes from developed countries’ innovations. Then, developing countries acquires new products and new processes previously discovered by developed countries. Info ...
... working conditions. New products may also appear in these developing countries with technology diffusion. Generally, technology diffusion comes from developed countries’ innovations. Then, developing countries acquires new products and new processes previously discovered by developed countries. Info ...
What is COST?
... Chair encodes applicant details in eCOST Applicant and Chair complete application form in eCOST eCOST manages the process of Management Committee (MC), Domain Committee (DC) and JAF approvals where necessary Applicant receives an email notifying them of the outcome. e-COST International Cooperatio ...
... Chair encodes applicant details in eCOST Applicant and Chair complete application form in eCOST eCOST manages the process of Management Committee (MC), Domain Committee (DC) and JAF approvals where necessary Applicant receives an email notifying them of the outcome. e-COST International Cooperatio ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES David Hummels Peter J. Klenow
... costs of tariffs can be an order of magnitude larger when available import variety is endogenous. In the same spirit, geographic isolation could be much costlier if it lowers available import variety. This would help explain two intriguing results in the literature: Gallup, Sachs and Mellinger (1998 ...
... costs of tariffs can be an order of magnitude larger when available import variety is endogenous. In the same spirit, geographic isolation could be much costlier if it lowers available import variety. This would help explain two intriguing results in the literature: Gallup, Sachs and Mellinger (1998 ...
presentation - UNSD
... An overwhelming majority (more than 80%) of developing and transition countries considered each of the four questioned factors as critical for IMTS implementation (rated 5 or 4 out of 5). - cooperation with other agencies - guidance on how to implement the recommendations - mobilization of the requi ...
... An overwhelming majority (more than 80%) of developing and transition countries considered each of the four questioned factors as critical for IMTS implementation (rated 5 or 4 out of 5). - cooperation with other agencies - guidance on how to implement the recommendations - mobilization of the requi ...
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... limited local incentives to address climate change issues, other developed countries, such as those in Europe, face stronger incentives (Cline 2007, p. 21). For analytical purposes the extension to include further countries is important. This is done in Section 3. The issue is the extent to which ha ...
... limited local incentives to address climate change issues, other developed countries, such as those in Europe, face stronger incentives (Cline 2007, p. 21). For analytical purposes the extension to include further countries is important. This is done in Section 3. The issue is the extent to which ha ...
ideas para propuesta a grupo de nnuu sobre business y hhrr
... to obtain evidence which is to be found abroad, as in all those cases where the claimants believe that the judicial mechanisms of the country where the violations have taken place are not suitable to their needs and they decide to file the claim elsewhere. The drafting and dissemination of model law ...
... to obtain evidence which is to be found abroad, as in all those cases where the claimants believe that the judicial mechanisms of the country where the violations have taken place are not suitable to their needs and they decide to file the claim elsewhere. The drafting and dissemination of model law ...
Remittance Facts
... remittance costs continue to remain high, especially in Africa and in small nations where remittances provide a life line to the poor. Quarterly remittance outflows data up until the second half of 2011 suggests that the growth of remittance outflows from Western European countries have increased fr ...
... remittance costs continue to remain high, especially in Africa and in small nations where remittances provide a life line to the poor. Quarterly remittance outflows data up until the second half of 2011 suggests that the growth of remittance outflows from Western European countries have increased fr ...
Cyclical fluctuations in the Mediterranean basin - e
... The nature and the transmission properties of business cycles around the globe have dramatically changed since the early 1980s. On the one hand, emerging market economies now play an important role in the shaping world business cycles, previously determined by a handful of developed countries. On th ...
... The nature and the transmission properties of business cycles around the globe have dramatically changed since the early 1980s. On the one hand, emerging market economies now play an important role in the shaping world business cycles, previously determined by a handful of developed countries. On th ...