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  Financial constraints and growth: multinational and local firm responses to currency crises

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2004

  This paper studies the effects of financial constraints on firm growth by investigating if large depreciations differentially impact multinational affiliates and local firms in emerging markets. U.S.
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  How does social development affect FDI and domestic investment?

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2004

  Organisations such as the World Bank have tended to assume that institutional reforms designed to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) will increase overall investment levels in an economy by also increasing domestic investment.
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  Prospects for FDI flows, transnational corporation strategies and promotion policies: 2004–2007

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004

  This report presents the results of a survey of international foreign direct investment (FDI) location experts who work as consultants, advisers and/or analysts in the investment location decision-making processes of transnational corporations (TNCs).
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  Corporate social responsibility and business regulation

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2004

  This policy briefing paper compares the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to regulating corporate responsibility.
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  Does foreign ownership matter for survival and growth?: dynamics of competition and foreign direct investment

  Economic Research Center, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 2004

  This paper analyzes the differences in entry characteristics, post-entry performance and learning behaviors of foreign and domestic firms in Turkish manufacturing industry.
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  The use of "asset swaps" by institutional investors in South Africa

  World Bank, 2003

  Developing countries’ restrictions on international investment are designed to protect foreign exchange reserves and limit capital flight, but also have the effect of preventing institutional investors such as pension funds and insurance companies from diversifying their country risk.This paper argues that for developing countries, asset swaps, whereby institutional investors agree to swap the
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  Investment and sustainable development: a guide to the use and potential of international investment agreements

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2004

  This paper examines the role played by international investment agreements (IIAs) in fostering sustainable development. It reviews the various rights and obligations, and arbitration rules of regional, bilateral and multilateral investment agreements.It finds that there is a need to reconsider the underlying purposes, substantive content and processes associated with IIAs.
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  Chasing the dragon: accounting for the under performance of India by comparison with China in attracting foreign direct investment

  Development Studies Association, UK and Ireland, 2003

  This paper seeks to explain why, although both China and India had similar levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the late 1970s, China now attracts far more FDI than India.The analysis focuses on the way in which national and sub-national governments have gone about the task of promoting inward foreign direct investment, and also considers how the governments of the two countries have fa
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  Exploring the role of development cooperation agencies in corporate responsibility

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004

  The paper examines what donors are doing to promote and enable corporate responsibility. It presents findings from a conference held in March 2004.
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  Transmission of knowledge and innovation in Poland: role of trade and foreign investment

  Center for Social and Economic Research, Poland, 2002

  This paper examines the importance of the two leading elements of technology transmission into Poland: high- technology imports and foreign direct investment; and how they contribute to the productivity of Poland’s manufacturing industry.In Poland, industries have a limited accumulation of knowledge and technology.

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