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Labor-Quality Signaling to Attract Foreign Investment

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Attracting Foreign Investment Through Privatization

Journal of African Business, 2004
ABSTRACT Privatization serves as a potential source of foreign direct investment in Africa. During the Chiluba era (1991–2001), Zambia conducted one of Africa's most sweeping privatization programs. Accordingly, direct investment swelled with the sale of state enterprises.
Robert J. Rolfe, Douglas P. Woodward
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Emerging Economies’ Attraction of Foreign Direct Investment

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
This paper uses a composite measure to examine why some countries attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) than others. The measure considers all identified, measurable, and comparable socioeconomic aspects that affect FDI decisions on an aggregated country level. As a result, we can rank 127 countries with respect to their FDI attraction.
Groh, Alexander, Wich, Matthias
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Attracting Foreign Direct Investment

Foreign Trade Review, 2002
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows are industry-specific and, therefore, are regional-specific. Following this framework, the paper, first of all, notes that the regional FDI inflows relate positively to cross-regional differences in initial level of manufacturing output.
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Taxes and Foreign Direct Investment Attraction: A Literature Review

2012
Purpose: The purpose of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive review of the literature on the importance of taxes as a determinant of FDI attraction. Approach: The chapter presents the fundamental elements of the conceptual background that explain how and under which circumstances taxation may be a significant factor underlying FDI decisions. Then
Tavares-Lehmann, Ana Teresa   +2 more
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Marketing Strategies to Attract Foreign Investment

1993
Although the decade of the 1980s has seen a major increase in a range of efforts by both developing and industrialised countries to market themselves as attractive locations for foreign direct investment, existing research has been biased toward the role of investment incentives and policy reform in these activities.1 Current efforts, however, include ...
Louis T. Wells, Alvin G. Wint
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