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  How the quality of institutions affects technological deepening in developing countries

  World Bank, 2001

  This paper assesses the effect of institutional quality on R&D expenditures in developing countries. The paper finds that the risk of expropriation and the rule of law are correlated with R&D expenditures.
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  Liberalising foreign investments by pension funds: positive and normative aspects

  OECD Development Centre, 1997

  The paper evaluates the economics of foreign investment regulation for pension funds, with a focus on developing countries, where fully-funded pension systems are being started de novo. The analysis produces three observations.
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  Outflows of capital from China

  OECD Development Centre, 1997

  While the world has been mesmerised by China’s emergence as a major player in international trade, now being one of the world’s top ten traders, and also as an absorber of international capital (second only to the United States), China’s state-owned and other public sector enterprises have been quietly growing in importance as a source of international capital.
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  Regulatory Challenges for Source Countries of Surges in Capital Flows

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1997

  One of the more surprising developments in international financial markets over the last decade has been the growing role of foreign portfolio investment as a channel for international capital flows to developing countries. This is not, however, the first time there has been an abrupt shift in channels or in the volume of flows to these countries.
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  Domestic causes of currency crises: policy lessons for crisis avoidance

  OECD Development Centre, 1998

  The recent currency crises in Latin America and Asia have hit countries with strong macroeconomic fundamentals but weak domestic financial systems. Private capital flows, attracted by disorderly financial liberalisation and exchange rate pegs, reversed abruptly when financial-sector weaknesses became apparent.
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  The Role of International Investment in Development, Corporate Responsibilities and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: Conference report

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999

  Papers from Sept 1999 conference covering corporat responsibility, social accounting, foreign investment, and codes of conduct. Considered in the context of the OECD guidelines on corporate responibility
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  Southeast Asia: the role of FDI policies in development

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999

  This study, published in April 1999, looks at the role of foreign direct investment in the development of Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. It examines the influence of host country policies towards FDI on the level of foreign investment and, more importantly, the interface between such policies and the benefits to the local economy.
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  Multinational versus expatriate FDI: a comparative analysis of the Chinese and Indian experiences

  Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2000

  This paper offers estimated econometric models of FDI inflows into both China and India, making a distinction between multinational versus expatriate investments and provides statistics and analysis for both countries.Findings include:FDI inflow into India in 1997-98 totaled $3.2 billion as against the 1997 Chinese aggregate of almost $39 billionin both countries, investment by larg
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  Land ownership and foreigners: a comparative analysis of regulatory approaches to the acquisition and use of land by foreigners

  Legal Office, FAO, 1999

  Foreign ownership of land has historically been a sensitive political issue,and measures to regulate or restrict the practice in one form or another have figured prominently in national land laws. The study by Hodgson, Cullinan and Campbell provides an overview of the various regulatory approaches that have been devised to deal with this issue.
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  Globalisation and supply chain networks: the auto industry in Brazil and India

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  Examines the restructuring of the auto industry, and in particular the auto components sector in Brazil and India. In both countries, trade liberalisation and changes in auto industry policy led to large nflows of FDI and major changes in auto industry structure in the 1990s.

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