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  Multinational Firms and Technology Transfer

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  A developing country may attract foreign direct investment (FDI) for (1) technology transfer that increases local firm profits or for (2) wage premiums that benefit workers.
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  Foreign direct investment in Africa: Performance and Potential

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 1999

  African countries have made considerable efforts over the past decade to improve their investment climate. They have liberalized their investment regulations and have offered incentives to foreign investors. More importantly, the economic performance of the region had substantially improved from the mid-1990s. However, the expected surge of FDI into Africa as a whole has not occurred.
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  Technology Transfer and Spillovers? Does Local Participation with Multinationals Matter?

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1998

  Examines the effects on technology transfer and spillovers deriving from ownership sharing of foreign multinational affiliates.Trys to answer two questions, using unpublished Indonesian micro data: do establishments with minority and majority ownership differ in terms of productivity levels?
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  The Effects of Direct Foreign Investment on Local Communities [in the USA]

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1999

  The large increase in direct foreign investment (DFI) into the United States in the late 1980s has generated considerable research on why these flows occurred and where these foreign firms located. However, very little has been done to evaluate the impact these foreign firms have on the local communities in which they locate.
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  International Capital Markets 1999: Developments, Prospects, and Key Policy Issues

  International Capital Markets, IMF, 1999

  Reviews year's developments, and addresses a number of specific features of international capital market dynamics, including the systemic and other issues posed by highly leveraged institutions and activitiesthe nonstandard policy responses some emerging markets have taken when faced with extreme external pressuresthe performance of the major credit rating agencies during the recen
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  Trends in Venture Capital Finance in Developing Countries

  International Finance Corporation, 1998

  Presents an analysis of new data on venture capital in developing countries gathered from two main sources: i) regional venture capital associations in Asia and Europe, and ii) a survey administered by IFC on the portfolio structure of some 410 investments made by 53 venture capital funds in 19 developing countries.The data from the regional venture capital associations details sources and use
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  Trends in Private Investments in Developing Countries and Perceived Obstacles to Doing Business: Statistics for 1970-1997

  International Finance Corporation, 1998

  The first part of the discussion paper documents trends in private and public fixed investment. On average for the 47 countries covered (including, for the first time in this series, China), 1997 was a record year for private investment, which rose from a low of 11.2 percent of GDP in 1985 to 14.3 percent in 1997, the last year for which data exist.
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  Country Risks and the Investment Activities of U.S. Multinationals in Developing Countries

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1999

  Examines the uneven distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) over developing countries.
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  African Mining in the Late 1990s: A Silver Lining ?

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999

  Paper describes in detail the current structure of ownership and control in African mining and mining processing, post-1994 restructuring in the South African industry, the current exploration boom in Africa and the tension between large-scale industrial and small-scale "artisanal" mining.
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  Privatisation and foreign direct investment in mainland Tanzania, 1992-98

  Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999

  Information is supplemented by a sketch of the non-privatisation based foreign direct investment (FDI) position over the same period. Privatisation revenue roughly accounted for a third to a half of all FDI.

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