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Corruption, composition of capital flows, and currency crises [PDF]

open access: yes
Crony capitalism and international creditors'self-fulfilling expectations are often suggested as rival explanations for currency crises. A possible link between the two has not been explored.
Shang-Jin Wei
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The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment to China on Foreign Direct Investment to Other Countries. ESRI Research Bulletin 2012/4/3 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
China has recently become a leading destination for foreign direct investment (FDI). The surge of FDI to China has followed its opening to the world economy and selective easing of capital controls. While the main motivation driving the increased inflows
Resmini, Laura, Siedschlag, Iulia
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No egalitarianism in the Wa hills: relative commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war Nul égalitarisme dans les hautes terres Wa : commensuration relative dans la parenté, le sacrifice et la guerre

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
wiley   +1 more source

Communications Networks and Foreign Direct: Investment in Developing Countries [PDF]

open access: yes
It is widely accepted that investment is essential for the long-term economic growth of developing countries. There is some evidence that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in developing countries provides spill-over benefits through technology and skills ...
Lydon, Reamonn, Williams, Mark
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Efficiency externalities from Trade and Alternative Forms of Foreign Investment [PDF]

open access: yes
The literature has concentrated on evaluating technological spillovers from trade and inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). Little effort has been directed towards identifying efficiency externalities arising from international linkages.
Alicia N. Rambaldi   +2 more
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Effects of Fiscal Policy Uncertainty and Asymmetric Spillovers: Evidence From Korea

open access: yesPacific Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Uncertainty surrounding tax, expenditure and debt policy exerts an impact on the real economy. Motivated by this, our study investigates the effects of fiscal policy uncertainty (FPU) on macroeconomic and fiscal aggregates in Korea. Using a recently developed Korea FPU index, we show that while shocks to FPU lead to an increase in government ...
Dooyeon Cho, Yeonjin Song
wiley   +1 more source

SEARCHING FOR HUMAN CAPITAL DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS IN THE EU NEW MEMBER STATES [PDF]

open access: yes
The specific levels and patterns of foreign direct investment in the Central and EasternEuropean countries could not be fully explained taking into account only the traditional economicdeterminants, as shown in the empirical studies undertaken so far ...
Cosmin Enache, Ioan Talpos
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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Foreign Capital Inflows (FCI) On Economic Growth in Pakistan [1975-2004]

open access: yesJISR Management and Social Sciences & Economics, 2007
The Two-Gap Model suggests that the Poor countries have to rely on the foreign capital inflows (FCI) to fill the two Gaps: Import-Export Gap and the SavingsInvestment Gap.
Ghulam Mohey-ud-din
doaj  

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