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Scott, Dorris. "Made in Brazil, consumed in Japan a look at the economic subjectivities and consumption places of Nikkei immigrants in Japan /." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1208549280.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Kent State University, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 29, 2008). Advisor: Shawn M. Banasick. Keywords: Japan, Brazil, immigration, transnationalism. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-108).
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Tambourgi, Patricia Vilarinho. "O Sistema Humanitário Internacional no século XXI: os doadores não DAC e o caso brasileiro." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/101/101131/tde-28112017-133645/.
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A arquitetura do Sistema Humanitário Internacional no século XXI está em expansão. Não somente os recursos aportados têm crescido, como também o número de atores envolvidos como doadores, tais como organizações internacionais governamentais e não governamentais. Os países são os maiores provedores de assistência humanitária, e este grupo também apresenta ampliação. Tradicionalmente, os países membros do Comitê de Assistência ao Desenvolvimento, da Organização para Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico (DAC/OCDE) são os atores mais antigos do sistema humanitário contemporâneo e os que mais aportam recursos. A literatura recente, contudo, aponta para a emergência de outros países doadores de fora do grupo, que estariam trazendo mudanças na governança internacional do sistema. Os estudos sobre os doadores \"Não DAC\" carecem de dados precisos, sendo, em sua maioria, baseados em estimativas. Esta pesquisa visa a aprofundar os conhecimentos sobre a atuação desses doadores, valendo-se de estatística descritiva de dados primários de organizações multilaterais do sistema humanitário da Organização das Nações Unidas para se poder mais bem compreender o grau de participação financeiro que os doadores \"Não DAC\" agregam ao sistema. Além disso, o estudo apresenta uma análise de como o Brasil age como doador de assistência humanitária internacional.The architecture of the International Humanitarian System in the 21st century is expanding. Not only the resources contributed have increased, but also the number of actors involved as donors, such as international governmental and non-governmental organizations. Countries are the largest providers of humanitarian assistance, and this group is also expanding. Traditionally, the member countries of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD / DAC) are the primary actors in the contemporary humanitarian system and those who provide the majority of the resources. Recent literature, however, points to the emergence of other donor countries outside the group that might be bringing changes in the international governance of the system. Studies on \"non-DAC\" donors lack accurate data and are mostly based on estimates. This research aims to deepen knowledge about the performance of these donors, using descriptive statistics on primary data from multilateral organizations of the United Nations humanitarian system to better understand the degree of financial participation that \"Non-DAC\" donors add to the system. Furthermore, the study presents an analysis of Brazil\'s actions as a donor of international humanitarian assistance.
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Hartmann, Alberto. "Brasil e África : 30 anos de cooperação entre Brasília e Maputo." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/79049.
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A presente pesquisa investiga os principais movimentos diplomáticos e econômicos que ocorreram nas relações internacionais entre Brasil e Moçambique nos últimos 30 anos. Objetiva-se compreender aqui o que causou as fortes oscilações em tais relações neste período, nomeadamente o seu aprofundamento no último decênio, quando foram alcançados não só ganhos quantitativos, mas também ganhos qualitativos, a partir de uma intensa cooperação internacional. Para tanto, faz-se uso de três instrumentos de análise, quais sejam: acordos de cooperação, fluxos comerciais e visitas presidenciais. A partir dos métodos histórico-descritivo e dedutivo, constrói-se o argumento do presente trabalho. As suas seções abordam o interesse nacional, a formação política e econômica de Moçambique, o histórico das relações entre Brasil e Moçambique, os fluxos comercias dos países-membros da Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP) e a cooperação bilateral entre Brasília e Maputo, sobretudo para o setor agrícola. Trabalha-se, por fim, com a hipótese de que o Brasil passou, a partir dos anos 2000, a adotar uma postura mais crítica para com a globalização, promovendo, assim, relações horizontais não apenas em termos de trocas comerciais, como também em termos de transferência de tecnologia. Brasília ambiciona tanto o fortalecimento da sua economia nacional quanto a ampliação da sua zona de influência, tendo em vista um maior protagonismo internacional.This study investigates the key diplomatic and economic movements that occurred in international relations between Brazil and Mozambique in the last 30 years. The objective is to understand what caused the strong oscillations that characterized relations during this period, and in particular the development that took place over the last decade, when not only quantitative but also qualitative gains were achieved, as a result of intense international co-operation. This question will be explored through three analytical tools, namely co-operation agreements, trade flows and presidential visits. The argument of the paper is built on the historical-descriptive and deductive methods. Its sections address national interest, the political and economic formation of Mozambique, the history of relations between Brazil and Mozambique, trade flows of the member countries of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) and bilateral co-operation between Brasília and Maputo, especially in the agricultural sector. In conclusion, the work supports the hypothesis that from the 2000s, Brazil has adopted a more critical attitude towards globalization, thereby promoting horizontal relationships not only in terms of trade but also in terms of technology transfer. Brasília aims to both strengthen its economy and enlarge its sphere of influence, thereby forging a greater international role for itself.
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Mahmoud, Khalid Salah el-Dien Taha. "Agricultural foreign trade among Arab countries /." Berlin : Köster, 2005. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=013306609&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Al-hijazi, Yahya Z. D. "Developing countries and foreign direct investment." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0025/MQ50916.pdf.
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Alhijazi, Yahya Z. D. "Developing countries and foreign direct investment." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21670.
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Along with international trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) has been the engine driving the current economic globalization of the world economy. The growth rate of FDI, which exceeded that of international trade and world output throughout the 1990s, raises important questions regarding the value of FDI to developing countries as host countries to FDI and the role it can play in their development.In an attempt to answer these questions, this thesis tackles the main issues underlining FDI and developing countries. After analysing the pros and cons of FDI for developing countries and other interested parties, this thesis scrutinizes the regulation of FDI as a means to balance the interests of the concerned parties, giving an assessment of the balance of interests in some existing and potential FDI regulations. Furthermore, this thesis highlights the case against the deregulation of FDI and its consequences for developing countries. It concludes by formulating regulatory FDI guidelines for developing.
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Шевченко, Тетяна Іванівна, Татьяна Ивановна Шевченко, and Tetiana Ivanivna Shevchenko. "Recycling resources: experience of foreign countries." Thesis, Вид-во СумДУ, 2010. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/8279.
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Ghosh, Dastidar Amrita. "Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Aid, and Socioeconomic Infrastructure in Developing Countries." DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1976.
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During the 1970s and 1980s, developing countries, skeptical of foreign investment, imposed several barriers on entry of foreign capital. However, the late 1980s and 1990s marked the onset of globalization, which integrated the whole world into a single global economy. The once-conservative developing nations, realizing the multifarious benefits of foreign direct investment (FDI), began encouraging entry of foreign firms, using various incentives, such as tax holidays, production subsidies, cash grants, labor training grants, and import duty exemptions. Gradually, FDI and foreign aid became two very important sources of foreign capital for these capital-constrained economies. This dissertation is focused on studying if there is any kind of relationship between foreign aid and private investment in recipient countries. FDI is a decision made by foreign investors on the basis of profitability of investment, whereas foreign aid is a political decision made by governments of donor countries on the basis of need for financial assistance by developing countries. We model foreign aid as an exogenous factor in allocation of foreign direct investment, along with other variables, to estimate the effect of aid on investment. Among the factors affecting FDI, infrastructure is considered to be an important one, in allocation of funds across developing countries. This dissertation is arranged as follows. In chapter 2, we introduce the term ``socioeconomic'' infrastructure and create an index, by combining several components of infrastructure, using the multivariate technique of principal components. Prior to creating the index, we employ the technique of multiple imputation to deal with missing data. Our measure of socioeconomic infrastructure contains elements of physical infrastructure, such as transportation facilities, telecommunication facilities, consumption demand for energy and electricity, as well as social infrastructure components, such as voice and accountability, political stability and the absence of violence and terrorism, rule of law, control of corruption, government effectiveness, and regulatory quality. In chapter 3, we develop a theoretical model to address the research question: Does foreign aid impede or encourage foreign direct investment in developing nations? Our theory demonstrates that foreign aid used by the recipient country in financing a public input (known as development aid) encourages foreign direct investment. We also empirically address the same issue by modeling foreign aid as a determinant of foreign direct investment, along with a host of other factors, including our computed index of socioeconomic infrastructure. Our analysis shows that public consumption aid (foreign aid used for financing consumption expenses) does crowd out private investment in current account surplus developing countries, whereas development aid crowds in private investment in the presence of sound macroeconomic, political, legal, and administrative machineries. In chapter 4, we build a panel econometric model to explain the factors underlying socioeconomic infrastructure in developing countries. Our results indicate that countries with higher per capita income, a prominently large government, high investment demand, and large government revenue tend to have better infrastructure.
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Khayat, Sahar. "Developing countries' foreign direct investment and portfolio investment." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/38031.
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This thesis is a collection of three empirical essays on foreign direct investment and cross-border portfolio investment. The objective of the first essay entitled: “Oil and the Location Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in MENA Countries” is to investigate the effect of oil as a proxy for natural resources and the main location determinants of foreign direct investment. Moreover, this paper examines whether oil as a proxy for natural resources in the host countries alters the relationship between natural resources and institutional quality. The result of the interaction, which is the key interest in this chapter, is robust and undermines the effects of investment profiles on IFDI. Paying particular attention to the degree of outward FDI concentration in developing countries and transition economies, the second essay is titled “Extending Dunning's Investment Development Path (IDP): Home Country Determinants of Outward Foreign Direct Investment from Developing Countries.” The aim of the empirical estimates provided in this paper is to investigate the home countries’ determinants of outward FDI from developing countries. Results from the paper support the OLI paradigm, the IDP theory. In the third essay, “Cross-Border Portfolio Investment from the Developing Economies and the Top Major Partners, using the Gravity Model”, I have applied a new approach to a new panel data set of bilateral gross cross-border investment flows between 37 developing countries and 79 host countries. The remarkably strong results have positive implications for the theory of asset trade. The main result suggests that the positive and significant coefficient of GDP per capita in a destination country can explain a significant part of the Lucas paradox, and supports the reason for developing capital being invested outside the region. Interestingly, geographical proximity is found to exert a significant positive influence on assets in order that investors may seek to diversify their portfolios.
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Shah, Mumtaz Hussain. "Essays on foreign direct investment in developing countries." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/10296.
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The first chapter assesses the relative importance of WTO accession in general and that of its three major components, that is, TRIMS, TRIPS and liberalisation in particular in increasing a developing country’s attractiveness for overseas investors. Using annual data for a panel of 90 developing countries over the years 1980-2007, I found that trade and investment liberalization, removal of market distortions through TRIMS, strengthening and worldwide harmonisation of IPR standards through TRIPS adds to a developing country’s ability to host additional FDI. Consistent with the prediction of the market size hypothesis, population is found to have a significant positive effect on inward FDI. WTO membership, agglomeration and sound macroeconomic management have plausible significant effects on FDI inflows. Traditional FDI factors such as infrastructure availability, financial development and education, though regarded as important location determinants, are not robust with respect to alternative proxies and specification of the estimating model. Language and geographic location dummies confirm that foreign firms prefer Anglophones, and are reluctant to invest in South Asia and Francophone countries. In the second chapter, I investigate the effects of linkage factors with OECD countries on FDI inflows into leading/emerging developing countries. I use the standard gravity model approach, utilising annual data for 12 developing host and 16 OECD source countries from 1990 to 2007, to demonstrate that the increased association between a developed and a developing country is associated with large positive foreign direct investment inflows to the developing country. I found that a bilateral investment treaty, trade agreement and adherence to intellectual property rights conventions/treaties, results in increased FDI inflows, and are increasing with market size of the partners and their geographical proximity to each other. Moreover, I have shown that this effect occurs not only in case of bilateral accords but also multilateral and global pacts involving other countries, signalling increased commitment of the host country to potential overseas investors. However, their effect is more profound when the source and host countries are both members of/adhere to the same pact. These findings are found to be robust across different estimation techniques, model specifications and alternate proxies for variables1 Finally, in the third chapter, I explore the effects of corruption and political and economic institutions on foreign direct investment inflows in five South Asian nations, that is, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Owing to the long-term relationship with the host, strong institutions and absence of corruption and bureaucratic intervention are crucial location advantages of host countries, especially for those which lack abundant natural resources to attract foreign investors like the SAARC economies. For a thorough analysis, I exploited not only the aggregate measures of institutional strength from Fraser Institute, Polity IV and Freedom House from 1970-2009 but also the disaggregated clearly focused set of institutional measures from the Political Risk Services, that are, the sub-components of the International Country Risk Guide for 1984-2008. I found that changes in the institutional variables do not have an overall significant positive impact on FDI when aggregate measures of institutional efficiency are employed. However, when these collective measures are disaggregated to a more clearly focused set of factors, their increased effectiveness leads to additional FDI inflows at least for some indicators.
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Udomkerdmongkol, Manop. "Essays on Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.518740.
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Hnatyshyn, M. "Environmentally safe foreign trade liberalization in developing countries." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2014. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/36081.
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According to the peculiarities of the impact of global trade liberalization on the environment in developing countries, we have offered the main ways to ensure environmentally safe trade liberalization in developing countries (Table 1). We have grouped them into five main areas and suggested remedies to prevent environmental losses from trade liberalization for each of the areas. These tools include conducting internal economic reforms, reforming national system of environmental protection, involving wider public of the country and changing foreign economic activity orientation of the country from economic to eco-economic.
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Lockwood, William George. "Foreign aid and economic growth in developing countries." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185020.
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Foreign aid is a relatively new form of economic exchange between nations, yet in only a few decades it has become a persistent structural element of the modern world-system. Conventional theories of economic development view foreign aid as a "flow" of financial resources into an economy and argue that it accelerates economic growth in the less developed countries by supplementing the domestic capital resources that are available for development. Dependency theory and the world-system perspective conceive of foreign aid as a "structural" feature of the recipient economy and suggest that it retards economic growth in these countries by reproducing the structural distortion of the economy that was originally established by colonialism and by systematically limiting the ability of the peripheral state to control the development of its economy. These theories suggest contradictory findings which are tested in this dissertation with multiple regression analysis. The analyses parallel the seminal research of Bornschier et al. (1978) on foreign investment and economic growth by simultaneously estimating the effects of both short-term flows and long-term stocks of foreign aid on economic growth. Using a sample of 91 Third World countries, the effects of foreign aid on economic growth are estimated both during a period of relative expansion of the world economy (1970-1978) and during a period of relative recession (1978-1986). My findings lend some support to both theoretical perspectives but the direction of the effects are opposite to those predicted by Bornschier et al. Foreign aid is found to have short-term negative effects on economic growth during both time periods but long-term positive effects on economic growth are statistically significant only for the later time period. The findings from this research clearly suggest that the dependency and world-system perspective must modify its theoretical explanations concerning the relationship between foreign capital flows and economic development to take into account the varied uses of different types of financial resources. They also highlight the importance of recognizing that different phases of the expansion and contraction of the world economy may condition the effects of specific types of core-periphery interactions.
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Farr, Fabian. "Determinants of foreign direct investment and foreign direct investment in agriculture in developing countries." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/36241.
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Master of AgribusinessDepartment of Agricultural Economics
Allen M. Featherstone
Understanding determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Agricultural Foreign Direct Investment (AGFDI) is vital to policy makers in developing countries. FDI is a source of capital for the host country that does not affect its debt balance. Even so, technological spillover, better infrastructure as well as an increase in value added and market access have been the source of motivation to increase efforts to attract FDI. As for AGFDI, ongoing uncertainty with the financial markets created a shift in private investment towards tangible assets, which favors AGFDI to developing countries. Nevertheless, investment in agriculture suffers from low commodity prices and increasing productivity loss that discourage FDI and AGFDI. Therefore, it is crucial for policy makers to understand the determinants of AGFDI to create an attractive environment for potential investors. We use country level panel data to estimate the impacts of country-level economic and social variables on FDI and AGFDI. The data consist of 22 developing countries. A subsample of 13 Latin American countries is also studied. Country and year fixed effects are used to isolate the impacts of the explanatory variables on FDI and AGFDI. The explanatory variables wer constructed to avoid contemporaneous endogeneity. FDI determinants are consistent with previous studies and confirm traditional variables such as economy size, infrastructure and trade openness encourage FDI. A new variable that measures energy imports as a share of total energy use was negative for both main samples of FDI. The results of the Latin American panel for AGFDI, were mostly consistent with FDI determinants. Infrastructure, energy imports and economy size, as well as forestland share and agricultural value-add were statistically significant for the amount of investment inflow and total flow respectively. Further analysis with larger samples is necessary to confirm findings. Also, social and environmental impacts of AGFDI should be included in future studies.
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Zhang, Jian. "The impact of trade related investment measures in developing countries." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=765888031&SrchMode=1&sid=6&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1209144977&clientId=23440.
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Protsenko, Alexander. "Vertical and Horizontal Foreign Direct Investments in Transition Countries." Diss., lmu, 2004. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-21058.
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Hauser, Frank. "Country Risk and Foreign Direct Investments in Transition Countries." Diss., lmu, 2006. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-49002.
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Ahmed, Akhter, and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au wildol@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "THE MACROECONOMIC IMPACT OF FOREIGN AID TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES." Deakin University. School of Economics, 1996. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20040907.174003.
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The thesis looks at the macroeconomic impact of foreign aid. It is specially concerned with aid's impact on the public sector of less developed countries < LDCs> . Since the overwhelming majority of aid is directed to the public sector of LDCs, one can only understand the broader macroeconomic impact of aid if one first understands its impact on this sector. To this end, the thesis econometrically estimates " fiscal response" models of aid. These models, in essence, attempt to shed light on public sector fiscal behaviour in the presence of aid inflows, being specially concerned with the way aid is used to finance various categories of expenditures. The underlaying concern is to extent to which aid is " fungible" -that is, whether it finances consumption expenditure and reductions in taxation revenue in LDCs. A number of alternative models are derived from a utility maximisation framework. These alternatives reflect different assumptions regarding the behaviour of LDC public sectors and relate to the endogeniety
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Hyun, Hea-Jung. "Three essays on foreign direct investment in developing countries." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3215176.
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Prasad, Kodiyat Tiju. "Foreign direct investment from developing countries: a systematic review." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2009. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/6576.
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The privileges of integration with the global economy have led developing
countries to embark on a path of liberalisation and globalisation. This resulted in rapid
growth of inward and outward foreign direct investment from developing countries. In
the last two decades there is an increasing trend of outward FDI from developing
countries to both developed and developing countries. This dissertation focuses on
exploring the literature on outward FDI from developing countries, and
internationalisation process of developing country multinationals which are
considered to be carriers to investment across international borders. The study has
examined the two main strands of literature on outward FDI from developing
countries – determinants of outward FDI and internationalisation process.
Findings of the systematic review show that there is a dearth of studies in this
area of research. Except a number of studies on China and countries of East and South
East Asia, there is very limited evidence on outward FDI from developing countries.
There is a set of studies on Africa that examine South-South investment flows.
Studies on other major developing countries are either non-existent or lack in
comprehensiveness. Some studies resulted in contradictory findings about the
determinants of outward FDI. This raises the question of sensitivity of variables
across geographical locations and time periods, which has not been researched before.
Studies on outward FDI also do not make a clear distinction between South-South and
South-North FDI flows. Other aspects like sovereign wealth funds and commodity
price boom have been ignored in the literature. It is important to investigate outward
FDI flows from the major developing economies because of its sheer scope to
contribute to academic literature, its policy implications, and also because of its
potential to bring development to some of the most impoverished parts of the world.
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Keeley, Alexander Ryota. "Foreign Direct Investment in Renewable Energy in Developing Countries." Kyoto University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/232433.
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Bagus, Shereen. "The impact of foreign bank ownership on developing countries." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23713.
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The recent LIBOR rate scandal in which Barclays received a sizeable fine for their role in the exploitation of the Interbank rate has had a negative reputational impact on Absa, as Barclays’ owns more than 50.1 per cent of Absa’s shares. This raises the question as to what the impact is of foreign bank ownership on a developing country.The purpose of this research is to ascertain whether a developing country can attain economic growth benefits in the form of increased levels of competition and efficiency in its banking sector, by implementing the foreign bank entry or more specifically the foreign bank ownership of local banks, economic liberalisation reform.Using econometric analysis the study calculated the levels of competition and efficiency from the annual firm-level financial statements for the period 1999 to 2010. This was done in two phases, where Phase One was from 1999 to 2004 and Phase Two was from 2005 to 2010 representing the periods pre- and post the Barclays’ acquisition of Absa.The findings of the two phases were then compared and indicated that there was no significant change in the level of competition or in the level of efficiency in the South African banking sector.The findings of the two phases were then compared and indicated that there was no significant change in the level of competition or in the level of efficiency in the South African banking sector.Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Le, Goff Maëlan. "Migrant remittances, foreign aid and development of recipient countries." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012CLF10398.
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Cette thèse de doctorat étudie les effets des envois de fonds issus des migrations sur le développement des pays d’origine des migrants et compare ces effets avec ceux de l’aide publique au développement. Dans une première partie, nous étudions les effets des envois de fonds des migrants sur le développement des pays récipiendaires. Il apparaît que les envois de fonds réduisent les inégalités intra-Pays dans les pays relativement plus riches, dont les coûts d’émigration sont faibles et dont la part des émigrés qualifiés est peu importante (Chapitre 1). L’effet sur la croissance économique en Afrique sub-Saharienne est également non-Linéaire et dépend positivement du développement financier et institutionnel des pays récipiendaires (Chapitre 2). Enfin, les envois de fonds ont un effet d’appréciation sur le taux de change réel dans les pays CFA, mais cet effet est non significatif pour les pays à régime de change flexible (Chapitre 3). Dans une seconde partie nous nous intéressons au caractère stabilisateur des transferts des migrants. Le Chapitre 4 montre, au niveau microéconomique, que les envois de fonds ont joué un rôle d’assurance lors de la dernière crise financière et que ce rôle a été d’autant plus important que les migrants n’ont pas été sévèrement touchés par la crise et que les liens conservés avec le pays d’origine étaient forts. Le Chapitre 5 montre à partir d’une approche pays par pays que les transferts sont contra-Cycliques dans une minorité de cas, mais qu’en moyenne, ils répondent négativement au revenu des pays d’origine. Les résultats du Chapitre 6 indiquent que les transferts atténuent l’effet négatif des chocs commerciaux sur la pauvreté. Dans une troisième et dernière partie nous comparons les envois de fonds { l’aide publique au développement. Alors que l’aide permet d’atténuer l’effet négatif de l’instabilité des exportations sur la croissance, les transferts des migrants permettent d’amoindrir l’effet négatif de l’instabilité des exportations sur la pauvreté (Chapitre 7). Enfin, les envois de fonds diminuent la dépendance des pays { l’aide publique au développement lorsque ces flux de capitaux sont investis plutôt que consommés (Chapitre 8)This dissertation examines the effects of migrant remittances on the development of origin countries and compares these effects with those of official development aid. In a first part we investigate the effects of remittances on the development of recipient countries. Results suggest that remittances reduce within inequality in countries more developed, where migration cost are lower and the share of skilled migrants less important (Chapter 1). Their impact on growth in sub-Saharan Africa is also non-Linear and depends positively on the financial and institutional development of recipient economies (Chapter 2). Finally, remittances have a real exchange appreciation effect in CFA countries, but not in countries with a flexible exchange rate regime (Chapter 3). In a second part we focus on the stabilizing impact of remittances. Chapter 4 shows, at the microeconomic level, that remittances have played an insurance role during the last financial crisis and that this role was all the more acute that migrants have not strongly suffered from the crisis and that family links were strong. Chapter 5 suggests in a country-By-Country approach that remittances are pro-Cyclical in a higher number of cases, while on average, they respond negatively to the home country income. Chapter 6 findings show that remittances dampen the harmful impact of trade instability on poverty. In a third part, we compare migrant remittances with public aid. While public aid mitigates the harmful impact of export instability on output growth, migrant remittances dampen the harmful effect of export instability on poverty (Chapter 7). Finally, migrant remittances reduce aid dependency in countries where remittances are invested rather than consumed (Chapter 8)
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Kariuki, Caroline Wanjiru. "The determinants of foreign direct investment in African countries." Thesis, Curtin University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2544.
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This research examines the significance of economic risk, financial risk, political risk, commodity price index performance, world stock market index performance, gross fixed capital formation, openness to trade, and the availability of a stock market in a host country in influencing FDI flows into African countries. Thirty five countries are included in this research, which uses panel data analysis. Annual data are used with a time period of 27 years.
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Reiter, Sandra L. "The institutions of foreign direct investment in developing countries and social/economic outcomes : a justice perspective /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8708.
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Bowen, Janine Louise. "Investigating the relationship between foreign aid and economic growth in recipient countries." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1272453688.
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Yip, Pui-yu Janice, and 葉沛渝. "Health food regulations in foreign countries: implications in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45175330.
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Salazar-Xirinachs, Jose Manuel. "The state, foreign trade and economic integration in developing countries." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.282910.
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Hess, Michael. "Doorways to Development: Foreign Direct Investment Policies in Developing Countries." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/680.
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a key option for economic growth in most, if not all, developing countries. However, not all developing countries are equally open to foreign investment. Some restrict foreign equity, while others encourage multinational corporations to enter their markets. Because FDI involves outsiders entering national markets and profits, it is very political. FDI can bring economic benefits, such as jobs and new technology, but it may also entail economic costs, such as increased competition for national businesses. FDI may also bring political costs, as governments that open to foreign equity may see a popular backlash. Most governments have policies to control FDI's entry into their markets. These policies have been inadequately explored in quantitative studies of FDI because of a lack of available data. This study seeks to rectify that problem by introducing a new set of data: The Foreign Equity Index. I develop a theory and model of FDI in developing countries framed by the logic of two-level games. FDI requires agreement between developing states and international firms, and therefore agreements are reached with influence from domestic-level political and economic factors, as well as international-level factors. FDI policies are an indication of developing countries win-sets, or range of agreements they are willing to accept when dealing with foreign multinational corporations. I test this theory quantitatively using the Foreign Equity Index, which covers 55 developing countries from 1976-2004. I first estimate the international and domestic factors that influence the degree of openness to FDI indicated by FDI equity policies in developing countries. I then test the effect these policies have on FDI inflows. I find that both domestic and international factors affect developing countries’ FDI policies, and in turn, policies are a significant factor determining the flow of FDI into national markets. I also explore the ways in which FDI policies have played a role in economic development strategies of El Salvador and Nicaragua. This research and the Foreign Equity Index should aid in a better understanding of foreign direct investment and growth in developing countries in general.
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Le, Hang Minh. "Foreign direct investment and economic growth : evidence from ASEAN countries." Thesis, Durham University, 2004. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1742/.
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Rai, Kalyani. "Impacts of foreign assistance on less-developed countries' agricultural productivity." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45882.
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The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of foreign assistance on lessâ developed countriesâ agricultural productivity. The study employed a Cobb- Douglas production function model. Several alternative model specifications were utilized in an attempt to model the true relationship between agricultural inputs and output. First, the foreign aid variable was included as a distributed lag of past foreign aid receipts and then as a three years moving average of aid expenditures. Second, dummy variables were introduced to allow the effects of aid to differ by income levels, yearly factors, and geographical regions. An inter country pooled cross section and time-series data for a set of 59 countries was used in the models from 1975-1984.
The empirical results did not support the hypothesis that the aggregate effect of foreign aid on agricultural production ls positive. However, the results of the model including dummy variables which account for the regional differences of aid effects revealed that the contributions of aid differ by geographical regions.Master of Science
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Chetty, Sanusha. "The Rationale for Renminbi-denominated foreign reserves for African countries." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/52367.
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International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) member countries are required to hold foreign reserves denominated in reserve currencies and China has indicated its intention to obtain a reserve currency issuer status. Given increased Sino-Africa trade, African countries may consider strategically realigning their foreign reserves to assist China, in order to secure beneficial trade arrangements.
The purpose of this research was to evaluate the suitability of Renminbi-denominated foreign reserves for African countries, with a particular focus on Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) growth. Africa could improve the market depth and liquidity of the Renminbi and support its acceptance within the IMF. China may find this beneficial as it would not affect its foreign reserve valuations nor result in significant transactional costs.
The research assessed the comparability between the Renminbi and reserve currencies, China s capital account liberalisation and the impact of Sino-Africa trade on African GDP growth.
The Renminbi was somewhat comparable to other reserve currency issuers. However, the impact of Sino-Africa trade on African GDP growth was limited. African GDP growth was more significantly linked to debt and Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ). Thus African countries may rather consider pursuing Renminbi-denominated debt or FDI in order to enhance their GDP growth and Sino-Africa relationships.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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Pomeroy, Roger Thorsten. "Optimal currency pegs for primary producing countries." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101250.
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The paper compares several methods a developing country can use to select a basket of currencies against which to peg its exchange rate, if the country's goal is to minimize variations in its real effective exchange rate. Data over the period 1973-1983 for Zaire, Zambia, Chile and Peru are used to compare the lowest variance exchange rate pegs that are obtained by: a) using different formulas to calculate the indexes of exchange rate variability, b) using different types of weights in the formulas (e.g., weighting bilateral exchange rate fluctuations by export, import or total trade), and c) calculating the indexes of exchange rate variation over different time periods within 1973-1983.M.A.
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Phan, Thu Anh. "Do Different Political Regime Types Use Foreign Aid Differently to Improve Human Development?" Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12182/.
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Existing literature on foreign aid does not indicate what type of political regime is best to achieve human development outcomes or use aid funds more efficiently. I contend that political leaders of different regime types have personal incentives that motivate them to utilize foreign aid to reflect their interests in providing more or less basic social services for their citizens. Using a data set of 126 aid-recipient countries between the years of 1990 and 2007, I employ fixed effects estimation to test the model. The overall results of this research indicate that foreign aid and democratic institutionalization have a positive effect on total enrollment in primary education, while political regime types show little difference from one another in providing public health and education for their citizens.
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Kellett, Ken. "Bilateral aid in Canada's foreign policy : the human rights rhetoric-practice gap." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Political Science, c2013, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3298.
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Successive Canadian federal governments have officially indicated their support of human rights in foreign policy, including as they relate to aid-giving. This thesis quantitatively tests this rhetoric with the actual practice of bilateral aid-giving in two time periods – 1998-2000 and 2007-2009. This, however, revealed that Canada has actually tended to give more bilateral aid to countries with poorer human rights records. A deeper quantitative analysis identifies certain multilateral memberships – notably with the Commonwealth, NATO, and OECD – and the geo-political and domestic considerations of Haiti as significant and confirms a recipient state’s human rights performance is not a consideration. These multilateral relationships reflect state self-interests, historical connections, security, and a normative commitment to poverty reduction. It is these factors that those promoting a human rights agenda need to contemplate if recipient state performance is to become relevant in bilateral aid decisions. Thus, it is necessary to turn to international relations theory, in particular liberal institutionalism, to explain Canada’s bilateral aid-giving in these periods.vi, 141 leaves ; 29 cm
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Uesugi, Takeshi. "Slippery bridge : Chinese diaspora and narratives of self and community." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79983.
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This thesis examines the identities and the narratives of Overseas Chinese. Through discussing their history, I explore how the overseas Chinese came to imagine themselves as a community called 'Chinese Diaspora', which is ostensibly held together by the imagination of a 'homeland' in a faraway place in the distant past. By examining autobiographical texts, I discuss how the 'Chineseness' they maintained throughout the migration is founded upon such a virtual reality, and how this in turn is experienced by the individuals. Taking the narratives as something that both reflect and construct their identities, I explore the conundrum women in diaspora face in representing their own experiences of the community on the basis of Maxine Hong Kingston's memoir. Chinese women of diaspora have particular difficulties in claiming their individuality through narrations, especially because the community that sustains the 'traditional' Chineseness is rapidly transforming.
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陳家恩 and Ka-yan Chan. "The role of migration in China's regional development: a local study of southern China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1990. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31209567.
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Bai, Xue. "Evaluation and suggestions on EU development assistance policy." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2595841.
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Gillies, David 1952. "Between ethics and interests : human rights in the north-south relations of Canada, The Netherlands, and Norway." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=41264.
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This study examines human rights in the North-South relations of three internationalist countries: Canada, the Netherlands, and Norway. It pays special attention to the integration of human rights in development aid policy, particularly the use of political conditionality. The theoretical framework examines the explanatory power of political Realism. A hypothesis linking policy assertiveness with the perceived costs to other national interests is tested by selecting Western states most likely to disprove Realist assumptions, and by choosing at least two Third World cases for each aid donor: one where economic, political and strategic interests are high, and another where the same interests are minimal or low. Three frameworks to (1) document human rights abuses; (2) evaluate national human rights performance; and (3) gauge foreign policy assertiveness serve as the methodological lenses to analyze Western statecraft and test the hypothesis.Each donor's search for moral opportunity is visible in an emerging agenda to promote human rights and democratic development. However, if the resolve to defend human rights beyond national borders is gauged by a state's willingness to incur harm to other important national interests, then Canada, the Netherlands, and Norway are seldom disposed to let human rights trump more self-serving national interests. The potential for consistent and principled human rights statecraft is frequently undermined by Realism's cost-benefit rationality.
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au, H. Chang@curtin edu, and Hyun Chang. "Cross-Cultural Adjustment of Expatriate Managers: A Comparative Study of Australian Managers Working in Korea and Korean Managers Working in Australia." Murdoch University, 2008. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20080908.105229.
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International assignments are increasingly important in the global business world but many assignments end up in failure causing heavy losses on many expatriates and their organizations. This study employees a multi-dimensional approach, as suggested by much of the literature on international assignments of Australian expatriates in Korea and Korean expatriates in Australia.
Hierarchical regression indicated that their expatriate success in performance can be accurately predicted by Family Adaptation how well the family adapted to the overseas location, Nationality where Korean respondents reported a much higher level of family adaptation with the move compared to Australian managers, and Age that older managers were more likely to report success with an overseas posting. Family adaptation with overseas work assignments, was determined by the level of Spouse Agreement and Nationality.
Overall, Korean expatriates rated their own performance and level of adaptation much higher than those of Australians in all measurement categories. The Korean group may have outperformed the Australian expatriate group in adjustment and performance, possibly due to their strength in language skills, educational level, religious and socialization commitments, situation-orientation, but most importantly, due to the stability in family and spouse relationships. The outcome suggests that organizations should address the issues related to spouse adjustment in order to ensure successful expatriate operations, from the stage of accepting assignments to the repatriation stage. There is some evidence at least in this research to suggest that these findings need to be replicated with larger samples and considered in future management policy.
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Mavrotas, George. "The effectiveness of foreign aid : a study using disaggregated data." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389789.
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Javidan, Darugar Mohammad Reza. "International Economic Dependency and Human Development in Third World Countries." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278243/.
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This study empirically tested the two competing development theories--modernization and dependency/world-system. Theoretical and methodological approaches suggested by these two paradigms offer opposing interpretations of the incorporation of the Third World countries into the world capitalist system. Therefore, they provide conflicting and, at times, confusing guidelines on the ways available to enhance the well-being of the general populations in these countries. To shed light on the subject matter, this study uses a few specific indicators of economic growth and human development by comparing the outcomes based on the two conflicting paradigms. The comparative process allows us to confirm the one theoretical approach that best explains human conditions in Third World settings. The study focuses on specific aspects of foreign domination--foreign investment, foreign trade, foreign debt, and the resulting disarticulated national economies. The main arguement, here, conveys the idea that as far as Third World countries are tied in an inescapable and unilaterally benefitial (to the core countries of course) economic and political relations, there will be no hope for any form of sustainable economic growth. Human well-being in Third World countries might very well depend on their ability to develop self-reliant economies with the least possible ties to the world capitalist system.
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Bang, Minhee. "Representation of foreign countries in the US press : a corpus study." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2009. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/902/.
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This study examines the representation of foreign countries in two US newspapers, the New York Times and the Washington Post. The corpus comprises foreign news reports between the years 1999-2003 amounting to approximately 42 million words of running text. The thesis presents 5 analyses each focusing on collocational and semantic patterns of a given set of keywords. In the first study, premodifiers of the keywords countries/ country/ nations/ nation are examined. It is argued that the semantic patterns of the premodifers construe a hierarchy and polarity among the countries concerned. In the second study, collocates indicating mental and verbal processes of Arab leaders and European/ European Union/ EU leaders are examined. In the third study, verbs of saying attributed to the keywords Blair and Hussein are examined. In the fourth study, the lexical collocate said and a set of grammatical collocates of the keywords China/ Japan/ North Korea/ South Korea are examined. These three analyses show that there are subtle and nuanced patterns in the representation of the countries and leaders which correspond to the countries’ relationship with the US and which transmit the ‘friend and foe’ or ‘us and them’ ideology. In the fifth study, the collocational patterns of the keyword democracy are examined. The analysis shows evaluative and rhetorical functions in the use of democracy in the context of foreign countries. Taken together, the analyses demonstrate cumulatively formed patterns of the representation of foreign countries which can be characterised by the two semantic themes of asymmetry and stereotyping.
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Veselková, Martina. "Ethics in Advertising. The Comparison of Czech Republic and Foreign Countries." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-77030.
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This thesis deals with the ethics approaches in advertising in different countries. First of all I describe the culture influence to the ethical values in the countries which need to be respected in the advertising appeal selection especially in the international advertising. In order to identify the concrete ethical values and attitudes in particular countries, the legal regulations and self-regulatiuons rules in advertising were analyzed. Furthermore, I choosed the unethical ads in particular countries and explained that approach through the theory of Hofstede's Cultural Dimension Model. The conclusions of such ethical analysis could be used in the international advertising. For this cross-country ethical comparison was chosen Czech Republic, China, India and Great Britain.
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Napleton, Stephen. "Aid versus foreign direct investment efficiently producing growth in developing countries /." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1961/6200.
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Abbas, Syed A. "An Empirical Analysis of Foreign Aid and Remittances in Developing Countries." Thesis, Griffith University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/406076.
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Foreign aid and remittances are the two major sources of external development finance for many developing countries. Levels of foreign aid received have improved gradually over the last few decades, while remittances have increased phenomenally in the developing world—especially over the last two decades. There is, therefore, a great amount of interest from researchers in the effectiveness of remittances and foreign aid in promoting macroeconomic stabilisation, growth and development. Apart from the important roles played by these financial flows, the question arises as to whether these two flows—foreign aid and remittances—are interlinked. Very little is known about the relationship between foreign aid and remittances because only a limited number of studies have analysed their relationship, and these do not provide an insight into how they are related. Furthermore, despite improved economic growth, developing countries have, in recent years, faced structural changes and rapid urbanisation. This thesis analyses these issues empirically by employing recent developments in econometric methods, using data for the period 1980–2016 from 50 aid-dependent developing countries. It also conducts an in-depth analysis of these issues through a specific case study that uses data for that same period from four South Asian countries.
The thesis firstly conducts a review of literature to identify a number of factors which influence remittance flows in developing countries. One of the findings reveals that foreign aid is a significant factor in determining remittances and has a negative effect, indicating that the two financial flows can be substituted for one another. The thesis then examines the functional form of the relationship between remittances and foreign aid and the different transmission channels or mechanisms through which they are interconnected. In contrast to more traditional literature, this thesis identified a non-linear relationship between remittances and foreign aid to the South Asian countries—a U-shaped relationship. Its findings also suggest that an increase in foreign aid reduces remittances to countries with lower aid-dependency while increasing remittances to countries with higher aid-dependency. Using a dynamic model for the South Asian countries, the thesis finds that, in the short-run, foreign aid helps increase remittances while, in the long-run, it reduces remittances. An analysis of the transmission channels reveals that increasing foreign aid improves human capital, which then positively influences remittances. Moreover, the effect of foreign aid on remittances through the economic growth channel is significant and robust in developing countries. Importantly, due to the potential impact of human capital on economic growth, the thesis also examines the human capital-led growth channel of foreign aid. Its findings indicate that the human capital-led growth channel of foreign aid has a significant and positive impact on remittances in developing countries.
Secondly, the thesis examines the impact of all external financial flows (including foreign direct investment—FDI) on the well-being of the relevant economies. It contributes to the literature by analysing various channels of financial flows by considering the effect of other variables—such as political stability (democracy), trade openness and human capital—on different measures of well-being. In developing countries, its findings indicate a significant and positive effect of all three external financial flows—foreign aid, remittances and FDI—on economic growth; the impact of FDI is relatively greater than the other two. Considering only the South Asian countries, foreign aid has had a significantly negative impact on economic growth, while FDI and remittances have a significantly positive impact. Besides economic growth, the thesis also examines the impact of financial flows on income inequality, which is a better measure of well-being. In developing countries, foreign aid and remittances both significantly reduce income inequality. The results for the South Asia countries show that foreign aid directly reduces income inequality while remittances do not have a directly significant effect on it. However, remittances are effective in reducing income inequality through their impact on the human capital development channel, providing better livelihood opportunities to skilled people.
The thesis thirdly investigates the relationship between structural transformation, urbanisation and remittances. The short-run dynamic analysis reveals that structural transformation and urbanization Granger cause remittances in the South Asian countries. However, when considering all developing countries, only structural transformation has Granger-causation on remittances. Furthermore, the empirical findings indicate a two-way (bi-directional) causal relationship between urbanization and structural transformation as well as between remittances and structural transformation.
In summary, the findings of the thesis indicate a negative relationship between remittances and foreign aid, and that the two flows are interconnected through various channels (human capital, economic growth, migration). In addition, the results also suggest that external financial flows improve economic growth and reduce income inequality in developing countries. Moreover, its findings indicate a short-run dynamic relationship between structural transformation, urbanisation and remittances. Most significantly, this thesis offers important findings that are beneficial for policymakers in developing countries, donor countries and international financial institutions. The findings suggest that policymakers should focus more on human capital development which can be effective in increasing remittance flows, thus increasing their impact on economic growth and reducing income inequality.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Morcos, Peter. "Effective Organizational Culture Strategies for a Firm Operating in Foreign Countries." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5754.
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Organizational culture is a significant driver of success for firms, especially for those considering expansion to foreign countries. The purpose of this single case study was to explore effective cultural-oriented strategies that senior business leaders use to align the organization's culture with foreign countries' cultures to improve organizational performance in foreign countries. The target population was 8 current and former senior managers of a firm operating in 16 countries. Data were collected via a mix of videoconference and face-to-face interviews and the firm's archival documents, the financial statements, the HR policy, and the internal control policy. The conceptual framework that grounded this study was Perlmutter and Hofstede's theory of cultural dimensions, including the ethnocentric, polycentric, and geocentric model. Data analysis was conducted using Yin's 5-step model, and 5 themes emerged from the data: general characteristics of the chosen organization culture, communication, adjustment to foreign environments, organizational and national cultures, and issues with employees. The implications for positive social change include the potential to enhance a firm's social responsibility and social acceptance in international markets for the benefit of the firm, its employees, and the local societies.
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Gerussi, Elisa <1982>. "International openness in transition countries: further evidence on foreign direct investment." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2012. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/4723/1/gerussi_elisa_tesi.pdf.
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The thesis focuses on the process of international openness of Transition Countries. This study provides a theoretical analysis based on reference literature, and an empirical analysis which is aimed at estimating some main effects of Foreign Direct Investment. Transition has represented a highly complex phenomenon, characterized by several aspects, whose interaction has shaped the developmental path of each country involved. Although the thesis focuses on economic issues it is outstanding to underline that Transition implies political, institutional, and even social deep changes, which must be taken into consideration in the general overview of the contex. The empirical part has been developed along two different ways: a country analysis and a firm analysis, thus allowing to widen the study and delve deeper into the use of econometric instruments. More specifically, in the first empirical stage both static (Fixed Effects) and dynamic (LSDV Corrected) methodologies have been implemented, whereas in the second stage the Cox Proportional Function has been chosen in order to handle with censored data.
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Gerussi, Elisa <1982>. "International openness in transition countries: further evidence on foreign direct investment." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2012. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/4723/.
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The thesis focuses on the process of international openness of Transition Countries. This study provides a theoretical analysis based on reference literature, and an empirical analysis which is aimed at estimating some main effects of Foreign Direct Investment. Transition has represented a highly complex phenomenon, characterized by several aspects, whose interaction has shaped the developmental path of each country involved. Although the thesis focuses on economic issues it is outstanding to underline that Transition implies political, institutional, and even social deep changes, which must be taken into consideration in the general overview of the contex. The empirical part has been developed along two different ways: a country analysis and a firm analysis, thus allowing to widen the study and delve deeper into the use of econometric instruments. More specifically, in the first empirical stage both static (Fixed Effects) and dynamic (LSDV Corrected) methodologies have been implemented, whereas in the second stage the Cox Proportional Function has been chosen in order to handle with censored data.
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Simionato, Greta <1997>. "Do countries corporate income tax policy affect foreign subsidiaries financing decisions?" Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/22010.
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Most countries in the world allow for the deduction of interest payment from the computation of the tax base used for the application corporate income taxation. The same treatment is not afforded to dividends, thus introducing a debt bias with considerable consequences for the capital structure of firms and for their financing decision. In light of the role played by excessive leverage in the Great Financial Crisis, many – including the IMF and the European Commission - are advocating for an equal corporate tax treatment of equity and debt. To this aim, a few countries have introduced Allowances for Corporate Equity. The dissertation has as its objective the investigation of the effects that these different corporate income tax policies have on the financing decision of foreign subsidiaries.