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Business Cycles in Emerging Economies:The Role of Interest Rates
Global Development Network, 2002This paper documents the empirical relation between the interest rates that emerging economies face in international capital markets and their business cycles, using data including quarterly data for Argentina during 1983-2000 and for Brazil, Mexico, Korea, and Philippines, during 1994-2000.The paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model of a small open economy, in which:firms haDocumentA Study of Technological Change in the Small Enterprises of a Developing Economy: Analytical Framework and Empirical Examination
Global Development Network, 2002What firm level processes of diffusion of new technologies are there for small enterprises in a developing economy?DocumentHuman Capital, External Effects and Technical Change
Global Development Network, 2002Is there a positive association between total factor productivity and external effects on human capital? This paper addresses the question of human capital external effects and considers their existence in the form of interaction of human capital through labour putting together and sharing collectively their knowledge and skills.DocumentEfficiency of Mass Privatization and Government led Restructuring: Owner vs. Seller Effects on Performance of Companies in Slovenia
Global Development Network, 2002According to a recent World Bank report, the ideal privatisation strategy is to transfer assets as rapidly as possible to concentrated owners through open, fair and transparent methods.DocumentTariff and FDI liberalization: what to expect from China's entry into the WTO?
Global Development Network, 2002What features determine the final outcome of the liberalisation process? Who gains and loses with the liberalisation of FDI?DocumentThe Differential Impact of Japanese and U.S. Foreign Direct Investments on Exports of Indian Manufacturing
Global Development Network, 2001One of the most fiercely debated issues in the literature of development economics is the role played by the inward foreign direct investment in export performance of developing countries. This study aims to find whether FDI from different source countries have differential impact on the exports of Indian industries.DocumentPreferential trade, mis-invoicing and capital flight
Global Development Network, 2002Does preferential trade policy affect the degree of capital flight? It is commonly argued that presence and persistence of regulatory control on trade and payments induces exporters and importers to undertake illegal transactions.DocumentGlobalization: challenges and responses in the Arab world
Global Development Network, 2003With the second slowest annual growth rates in the world, a lack of investment flowing into the region and issues surrounding freedom, knowledge and women's empowerment, what's gone wrong in the Arab world?This paper first asks why globalisation should matter. It then considers why globalisation is challenging the Arab world, and how it should respond to this challenge.DocumentGlobalisation and Inequality in CIS Countries: Role of Institutions
Global Development Network, 2002Has globalisation and opening up to trade enhanced or decreased the negative effect of transition on incomes in transition countries? Over the last ten years most of these countries have liberalised their trade regimes versus non-CIS countries, introduced their own currency, and to some extent liberalised flows of direct and portfolio investment.DocumentBack to the future: the meaning of globalisation for Eastern and Central Europe
Global Development Network, 2003The paper first considers whether CEE is in or out of the globalised world. The strategic orientation for CEE and major domestic actors Joining the Process of Globalization is then discussed, followed by a consideration of specific choices facing the Elites in CEE when joining the globalised world.Pages