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Improving the Foreign Direct Investment Capacity of the Mountainous Provinces in Viet Nam [PDF]

The main purpose of this research is to suggest policies to improve the foreign direct investment attraction capacity in Northern Mountainous Provinces of Vietnam in short and medium-term.
Nguyen, Binh Giang
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Strategic (Inconsistent) Disclosures and Sophisticated Investors: Evidence from Hedge Funds

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent SEC regulations require that qualified hedge fund advisers provide their investors with narrative disclosures of their business and operations. We find that 40% of these disclosures omit or de‐emphasize information regarding advisers' operational and investment risks when compared to other sources of public information. Funds with such “
YICHANG LIU, JOSHUA MADSEN, FRANK S. ZHOU   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heterogeneous Spillover Effects: How FDI in Resources Extraction, Manufacturing, and Services Affect Sectoral Carbon Emissions in the MENA Region

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The MENA region faces a critical challenge: balancing economic growth spurred by foreign direct investment (FDI) with environmental sustainability. While FDI can bring technological advancements and capital, concerns exist about its potential to exacerbate environmental degradation, particularly carbon emissions.
Brahim Bergougui, Syed Mansoob Murshed
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in Terms of Slovak Republic and Wood-Processing Industry of Slovakia

Drvna Industrija, 2012
The presence of foreign direct investment in certain sectors or country determines several factors - the determinants of foreign direct investment. The article analyzes the selected factors of FDI inflows to the Slovak Republic and to the wood-processing
Martina Merková, Josef Drábek, Denis Jelačić   +2 more
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Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does the greater embrace of industrial policy globally signal the emergence of a New Washington Consensus? We show that the multiplication of industrial policies, while consequential, signals neither normalisation nor consensus. Rather, industrial policy is increasingly the object of contestation over norms and practices of state ...
Ilias Alami, Jack Taggart, Tom Chodor
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Population Health on Foreign Direct Investment [PDF]

We conduct a panel data analysis of 74 countries over 1980 2000 to investigate whether population health affects foreign direct investment inflows. Our main finding is that health has a positive and significant effect on such inflows for low- and middle ...
David Canning, David E. Bloom, Marcella Alsan   +2 more
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Collision, Competition or Cooperation? China's BRI and the EU's Development Policies Towards Eastern Europe

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of China's growing engagement in Eastern Europe, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) appears to challenge the European Union (EU) approach to promoting development in the region. We take issue with this claim by making three interrelated arguments.
Tanja A. Börzel, Julia Langbein, Lunting Wu, Valentin Krüsmann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report 2011: Post-crisis trade and investment opportunities [PDF]

With the start of the global economic crisis, world foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows decreases by 16% in 2008, then dropped sharply by 37% in 2009 and gained a marginal 1% increase in 2010.
United Nations ESCAP
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Paradigm Shift in the Making? Geopolitical Challenges and Institutional Changes in the International Monetary System: From Neoliberalism to a Pluralist Multipolar Financial Order

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examined the critical challenges facing the international monetary system, arguing that they have created conditions for a shift from a neoliberal framework to a pluralist multipolar financial order. Using an interdisciplinary approach that blends international law and international relations, the paper provides an analysis of the ...
Jiangyu Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Labor Market Flexibility as a Determinant of FDI Inflows [PDF]

This paper shows that labor market flexibility, measured by labor market standards and regulations, has two opposing effects on FDI inflows. Labor market regulations and standards decrease FDI inflows through the cost channel, but they increase FDI ...
Hazel Parcon
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