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  The FDI – employment link in a globalizing world: the case of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This study analyses the evolution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the increasing role of transnational companies (TNCs) in the domestic economies of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and will then in a second part outline the motivations and the different forms of FDI.
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  Foreign direct investment by African countries

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from developing countries has risen sharply over the past two decades. Most FDI has been by Asian firms establishing footholds in other Asian countries but there has also been investment in developed countries such as the European Union. However, with the exception of South African investment, there is little FDI stemming from Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Public debt in developing countries: has the market-based model worked?

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2005

  This paper examines why significant levels of public debt and external finance are more likely to have enhanced macroeconomic vulnerability than economic growth in developing countries.
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  Economic development in Africa: rethinking the role of foreign direct investment

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005

  This report makes the point that, despite an increased focus on attracting foreign direct investment to Africa, the continent at present accounts for just 2 to 3 per cent of global flows, and the majority of FDI has been drawn into into enclaves of export-oriented primary production with limited linkages to the rest of the economy, and limited capacity to trickle down to poor people.
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  The causal relationship between ICT and FDI

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  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.
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  FDI and growth: a causal relationship

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2005

  This paper examines the causal relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and economic growth by using an innovative econometric methodology to study the direction of causality between the two variables.
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  Southeast Asia Human Development Report 2005

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004

  This report links the concepts of human development, regional economic integration and regional cooperation. It argues that the high level of disparity among countries within South East Asia can be attributed to variations in human resource development and differences in the quality of governance.
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  World Economic and Social Survey 2005: financing for development

  UN, 2005

  The World Economic and Social Survey 2005 provides a comprehensive review of the wide-ranging challenges addressed in the Monterrey Consensus of the International Conference on Financing for Development and the Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
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  Foreign direct investment spillovers and the absorption capabilities of domestic firms in the Argentine manufacturing sector (1992-2001)

  Global Development Network, 2004

  This paper explores and analyses to what extent FDI helps structural reform processes and to what extent the growing presence of TNCs generates productivity spillovers for domestic firms.TNCs’ affiliates are a source of both positive and negative spillovers for domestic firms.
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  Foreign direct investment and regulation: a case study of Thailand’s upstream oil and gas industry

  Centre on Regulation and Competition, Manchester, 2005

  This paper is to discusses and identifies conditions which can facilitate foreign direct investment (FDI) in the upstream oil and gas industry, where exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas take place.

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