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Incentives for foreign direct investments: the case of SADC in the 1990s
Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2002What are the incentives for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Southern Africa? In the developing world, the policy of attracting FDI as a substitute for the perceived lack of domestic capital and savings has become a panacea for economic growth and economic development. The returns from FDI are estimated to be higher in Africa than in any other developing area.DocumentWhat has China accomplished in its first year of WTO membership?
Center for International Development, Harvard University, 2002The role of China has become more and more prominent in the last two decades: its export rose rapidly and its economic growth increased remarkably. On the 11th December 2001 China gained the WTO membership.This paper summarises China's WTO commitments and it attempts to establish its accomplishments in its first year of WTO membership.DocumentForeign direct investment in China: some lessons for other countries
International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2002This paper points out both advantages and disadvantages of China’s increasing openness to foreign direct investment (FDI) and provides a list of important lessons for other governments which want to promote growth and productivity in their countries.It identifies that the main factors to contribute to China’s success are:market sizelabour costsquality of infrastructuregovernDocumentDoes foreign direct investment increase the productivity of domestic firms?: in search of spillovers through backward linkages
World Bank Publications, 2002This paper analyses whether the productivity of domestic firms is correlated with the presence of multinationals in downstream sectors. Previous empirical studies did not find definitive positive spillover effects derived from the presence of multinationals because they placed wrong the object of study.DocumentCorporate accountability in search of a treaty? Some insights from foreign direct liability
Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2002This Briefing Paper looks at two sets of legal actions that attempted to secure transnational corporate accountability. The cases are examples of increasing efforts to establish ‘foreign direct liability’ – holding parent companies accountable in home country courts to people affected by their environmental, social or human rights impacts in other countries.DocumentFDI, foreign affiliate operations, and the transfer process: macroeconomic adjustment to FDI inflows in the case of Costa Rica
Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2002Starting from the assumption that the macroeconomic effects of capital inflows depend on the different types of flows and their specific mechanisms of influence, this paper:analyses the adjustment process to FDI inflows in the case of Costa Ricafocuses on whether, to what extent and through what mechanisms such adjustment requires a real exchange rate (RER) appreciationargues thatDocumentChasing shadows: re-imagining finance for development
Jubilee Research, 2002Starting from the premise that finance is not about money, but about the relationships among people, states, markets and natural environment, this report provides three key-features so that finance can become a “real” tool for development.The paper warns that:in order to achieve the objectives of global security and meeting basic human development needs, the imbalance between free markeDocumentThe MENA countries and the Uruguay round and beyond
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2000The aim of this paper was to identify the interests and concerns of MENA countries in the round of multilateral trade negotiations (the WTO 2000 negotiations) with a view to helping these countries develop negotiation objectives and strategies.The introduction sets the stage by making the case for economic reforms in the MENA region and the role of the WTO in supporting these reforms.DocumentRemittances and other financial flows to developing countries
Danish Institute for International Studies, 2002This paper examines the flows of migrants' remittances in relation to other financial flows to developing countries. Since remittances by unofficial channels by all estimates are significant, the remittance amounts reported here are quite conservative. Official estimates of migrants’ remittances are in the order of US$ 100 billion annually, some 60 percent of which go to developing countries.