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Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America [PDF]

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms – privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization– as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European ...
Nauro Campos, Yuko Kinoshita
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Impacts of ICT diffusion, foreign direct investment, trade openness, and globalization on growth in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the past three decades, there has been a significant increase in information and communication technology (ICT) investments around the world, resulting in a rise in the use of modern ICT packages. Sub‐Saharan African (SSA) countries, however, face different challenges.
Ijeoma Christina Onuogu, Abubakar Hassan, Seyi Saint Akadiri, Abdulwahab Ahmad Bello, Joshua Sunday Riti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trade liberalization and the environment: Evidence from NAFTA and U.S. manufacturing

, 2017
Jevan Cherniwchan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Credibility, Real Interest Rates, and the Optimal Speed of Trade Liberalization [PDF]

This paper investigates the effects of imperfectly credible trade liberalization programs on welfare and the allocation of real resources. We present a rational expectations model in which a government, with limited access to international financial ...
Kenneth A. Froot
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Pass‐Through of Cocoa Prices Along the Supply Chain: What's Left for Farmers in Côte d'Ivoire?

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire are trapped in a cycle of poverty and farming practices that degrade the environment. This paper aims to provide an in‐depth understanding of the price formation process for cocoa at each stage of the supply chain in the world's largest cocoa‐producing country.
Kathrin Kaestner, Gunther Bensch, Colin Vance   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gains from Trade: Implications for Labour Market Adjustment and Poverty Reduction in Africa [PDF]

This paper reassesses the gains from trade for sub-Saharan Africa, and draws their implications for labour market adjustment and poverty reduction. It reviews previous studies on multilateral liberalization, focusing on the findings from computable ...
Fosu, Augustin Kwasi, Mold, Andrew
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“Green Developmentalism” and the Role of International Law in Negotiating the Energy Transition

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Policy evolutions in North American and European capitals have prompted debates about ongoing shifts in global economic governance from a primary emphasis on promoting markets to a more extensive role for the state in steering economic relations.
Lorenzo Cotula
wiley   +1 more source

A Quantitative evaluation of Vietnam's accession to the ASEAN Free Trade Area [PDF]

Vietnam's accession into the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) has been an important step in its integration into the world economy. The authors use a multi-region, multi-sector computable general equilibrium model to evaluate how different trade ...
Fukase, Emiko, Martin, Will
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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

Kenya's 2010 abortion law impacts contraceptive use and fertility rates. [PDF]

Reprod Health
Kumbeni MT, Bovbjerg ML, Harvey SM, Luck J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source