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    Are foreign investors attracted to weak environmental regulations?: evaluating the evidence from China

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2005
    The study examines the whether pollution-intensive industries from rich countries relocate to poor countries with weaker environmental standards.
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    Multinational investment, international trade and contracts in transition economies: a case study for food-industries

    European Development Research Network, 2004
    This paper investigates the effects of food-multinationals’ activity in terms of social welfare, in order to understand their role in the economic development of transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe.Main findings of the study include:equilibrium non-binding contract is preferred by both players to the equilibrium binding contractforeign direct investments have gained i
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    Estimating the determinants of foreign direct investment inflows: how important are sampling and omitted variable biases?

    European Development Research Network, 2004
    This paper investigates the importance of institutions vis-à-vis factor endowments as determinants of FDI inflows to the transition economies in Central Europe and in the former Soviet Union.
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    The emerging foreign investment regime in the Americas

    Canadian Foundation for the Americas, 2005
    This paper examines the nature of the emerging foreign investment regime in the Americas, which is defined by the existing multi-layered patchwork of primarily bilateral investment agreements and investment chapters of free trade agreements.Main findings include:there are competing visions of this regime, with most Latin American countries promoting a version that leaves them more flexi
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    Outward foreign direct investment and export competitiveness: the Indian experience

    Gujarat Institute of Development Research, India, 2004
    This paper examines the relationships between the outward investment and export activities of Indian enterprises. It assesses the extent to which Indian enterprises are oriented towards exports, and describes how this relates to their outward investment activities and industrial sector.
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    On export rivalry and the greening of agriculture: the role of eco-labels

    European Development Research Network, 2004
    As part of the second academic EUDN Conference on "Trade, aid, FDI and international migration" this paper examines the trade and environment debate with a special focus on the role of eco-labeling for agricultural exports.An empirical investigation offers the following results:while developing countries in Western Europe have used eco-labeling for a long time already, the spread of thi
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    Learning to export: evidence form Moroccan manufacturing

    European Development Research Network, 2004
    As part of the second academic EUDN Conference on "Trade, aid, FDI and international migration" this paper explores the export learning process of Moroccan manufacturers.
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    Diaspora, migration and development in the Caribbean

    Canadian Foundation for the Americas, 2004
    This paper examines the developmental impact of the growth of the diasporic economy on Caribbean countries, focusing on the issues of remittances, diasporic exports, brain drain, as well as the new health and security risks associated with migration and mobile populations.It asks whether the benefits of migration such as remittances, diasporic exports and the vent of surplus population redress
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    Regional Integration and Development (Overview)

    World Bank, 2003
    This document offers an overview of 'Regional Integration and Development' - a publication that followed a research project on the effects of regional integration on development, carried out at the World Bank.'Regional Integration and Development' deals with the following issues:how to make the most of RIAs the impact of RIAs on investment and foreign direct investment the dy
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    Trade, environment and development: the recent Argentine experience

    Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2004
    This paper examines the impact of trade liberalisation on the environment in both the manufacturing and the agricultural sectors in Argentina.

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