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  Foreign direct investment in post-reform India: likely to work wonders for regional development?

  Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 2007

  This paper addresses two major issues related to foreign direct investment and regional development in India’s post-reform period – spatial distribution of FDI and the relationship between FDI and economic growth. Based on the analysis of a new and detailed database on FDI approval since the 1990s, the paper argues that FDI is likely to increase India’s regional disparity.
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  The effect of external conditions on growth in Latin America

  International Monetary Fund, 2007

  This paper expolores the sensitivity of Latin American GDP growth to external developments using data from 1994 to 2006 on key external and Latin American variables. The paper finds that Latin American growth is robust to moderate declines in commodity prices and U.S.
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  Does good government draw foreign capital? explaining China' s exceptional foreign direct investment inflow

  World Bank, 2007

  This paper explores the linkages between good governance and foriegn direct investment (FDI) in China, which is now the world 's largest destination of FDI, despite its institutional deficiencies. The analysis compares the quality of China’s institutions with other developing countries.
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  Investment provisions in free trade agreements and investment treaties: opportunities and threats for developing countries

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005

  This discussion paper analyses some of the potential development policy implications of international investment rules and investment protection treaties.
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  Intertwined: FDI in manufacturing and trade in services

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005

  This study analyses the complex relationship between manufacturing FDI and trade in services. Its examines fragmentation—and the increased use of traded services in the fragmentation process—in four different manufacturing value chains (apparel, automobiles, semiconductors, and wood furniture).
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  Indian attraction: profitable multinationals as subsidy junkies: a study of incentives for foreign investment in India

  FinnWatch, 2005

  This report examines incentives offered to investors in India by the central government in New Delhi as well as the different state governments.
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  World Investment Report 2005: transnational corporations and the internationalisation of R&D

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2005

  World Investment Report 2005 (WIR05) presents the latest trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) and explores the internationalisation of research and development (R&D) by transnational corporations (TNCs) along with the development implications of this phenomenon.Part one highlights recent global and regional trends in FDI and international production by TNCs:global FDI flows resumed
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  The FDI – employment link in a globalizing world: the case of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  This study analyses the evolution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the increasing role of transnational companies (TNCs) in the domestic economies of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and will then in a second part outline the motivations and the different forms of FDI.
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  Foreign direct investment by African countries

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from developing countries has risen sharply over the past two decades. Most FDI has been by Asian firms establishing footholds in other Asian countries but there has also been investment in developed countries such as the European Union. However, with the exception of South African investment, there is little FDI stemming from Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  "How far can we tolerate?": the perceptions of multi-national mining and petroleum companies on policy framework in Papua New Guinea

  Global Development Network, 2005

  While past studies have dealt with the description of policies of developing countries shaped either in response of Multinational Companies (MNCs) criticism or in anticipation of new investment, the paper at hand analyses the empirical assessment of MNCs views and their continued investment in the countries.The objectives of the present study are the following:to examine the perceptions

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