- Regional Integration and Foreign Direct Investment: A Conceptual Framework and Three Cases
- Magnus Blomstrom; Ari Kokko / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- How regional investment agreements affect the flows of foreign direct investment depends on location, the competitiveness of local firms, the motives for investment, and how the agreement affects the policy environment.Blomstrom and Kokko d...
- Institutional Obstacles to Doing Business: Region by Region Results from a Worldwide Survey of the Private Sector
- A. Brunetti; G. Kisunko; B. Weder / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- More than 3,600 entrepreneurs world-wide respond to a survey about problems with uncertainty in dealings with the state. Case studies and anecdotal evidence have suggested that uncertainty about policies, laws, and regulations ...
- China and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
- Y Feng / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- In developing countries with little foreign direct investment (FDI), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) can serve as a catalyst for more such investment. In China, which now attracts one third of all FDI in developing...
- High Level Rent Seeking and Corruption in African Regimes: Theory and Cases
- J. Coolidge; S Rose Ackerman / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- For international aid and lending institutions: Encourage liberalization, deregulation, and civil service reform where rulers are autocratic but credibly committed to growth and efficiency. Be cautious about financing half-hearted ref...
- Technology Accumulation and Diffusion: Is There a Regional Dimension?
- P.C. Padoan / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- National patterns of technology diffusion found in country estimates probably reflect sectoral variations more than country variations. They also reflect different degrees of internationalization. Recently, interest in regional...
- Fiscal Imbalances, Capital Inflows, and the Real Exchange Rate: The Case of Turkey
- Pierre-Richard Agenor; C John McDermott; E Murat Ucer / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper examines the links between fiscal policy, uncovered interest rate differentials, the real exchange rate, and capital inflows in Turkey since the late 1980s. The first part reviews recent macroeconomic developments in Turkey...
- What Determines Real Exchange Rates? The Long and Short of It
- Ronald MacDonald / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Recently, there has been a revival of interest in modeling the long-run behavior of nominal bilateral exchange rates using fundamentals such as relative prices. In general, this approach has established that, for the recent floating p...
- The Tax Treatment of Government Bonds
- John Norregaard / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Governments in some developed and in many developing countries have introduced favorable tax treatment for interest on government bonds, in some cases by fully exempting this source of income from taxation. Presumably these special ru...
- Designing a Tax Administration Reform Strategy: Experiences and Guidelines
- Carlos Silvani; Katherine Baer / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Tax administrators in developing and developed countries face the challenge of modernizing tax administration so it can operate effectively in an increasingly global economy characterized by difficult-to-tax sectors and by sophisticat...
- Structural Adjustment and the Health Care Sector in India: some policy issues in financing
- B. Purohit / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1997
- The paper examines different strategies for the financing of health care in India, where the effect of structural adjustment has been to undermine the traditional resource base. The relative merits of user fees, insurance schemes, adm...
- Fiscal policy and the predictability of exchange rate collapse
- Betty C Daniel / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Is the exchange rate a shock absorber? : the case of Sweden
- A.H. Thomas / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Japanese foreign direct investment and regional trade
- Tamim A Bayoumi; G Lipworth / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- There has been considerable debate in Japan about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows, largely focused on whether the economy is .hollowing out.. The surge in outward Japanese FDI over the last decade, together with...
- Monetary impact of a banking crisis and the conduct of monetary policy
- Alicia Garcia-Herrero / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Money, wages and inflation in middle-income developing countries
- Pierre-Richard Agenor; A.W Hoffmaister / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Policy reform, adjustment costs, and investment : with activity of local investors as a signal
- Omotunde E. G Johnson / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Public disclosure and bank failures
- Tito Cordella; E.L Yeyati / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- The scope for inflation targeting in developing countries
- Paul R Masson; S Sharma; M.A. Savastano / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Difficulties in conducting monetary policy using an exchange rate peg or some monetary aggregate as the main intermediate target led a number of industrial countries in the 1990s to adopt a framework for monetary policy that has becom...
- Some evidence on exchange rate determination in major industrial countries
- R. B Johnston; S Yan / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Tax burden and migration : a political economy perspective
- Assaf Razin; E Sadka / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- Department of Economics, Strathclyde University
- University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
- Development bank of Latin America
- SecretarÃa General Iberoamericana (SEGIB)
- SEGIB is an Inter-governmental organisation for the provision of institutional and technical support to the Iberoamerican Conference and the Iberoamerican Summit Meeting of Heads of State and Heads of Government. SEGIB has member countries in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula - Spain, Portugal and Andorra.
- International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
- The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a non-profit business organisation created in June 1999 to establish a functional international framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions.
- Africa Progress Panel
- The Africa Progress Panel consists of a group of individuals who lend their time to track and encourage progress in Africa, and to underscore shared responsibility between African leaders and their international partners for sustaining it. A Geneva-based Secretariat supports the Panel in three main areas: research and policy; advocacy and communication; and preparation of APP core produ...
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD)
- Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD) is a regional alliance of peoples’ movements, community organisations, coalitions, NGOs and networks.
- International Growth Centre (IGC)
- The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. Based at LSE and in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC is initiated and funded by DFID. The IGC has 13 active country programmes in 12 countries (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India (Bihar state and Central), Mozambiqu...
- University of Western Australia
- Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance (FS UNEP)
- Frankfurt School – UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance is a strategic cooperation between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management (Frankfurt School).
- Long-Run Economic Perspectives of an Ageing Society (LEPAS)
- The EU member countries will be increasingly populated by older people. Nearly 25 percent of people in the European Union in 2030 can be above age 65, up from about 17 percent in 2005. Europe's old-age dependency ratio (the number of people age 65 and older compared with the number of working-age people ages 15-64) could more than double by 2050, from one in every four to fewer than one in every t...
