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Mozambique's difficult decade: Three lessons to inform next stepsAt the start of the last decade, Mozambique’s prospects looked stellar...
Foreign Direct Investment Foreign investments Natural resource managementResearch Brief
Turnin’ it up a notch: Can foreign direct investment help South Africa increase the complexity of its exports?Since the end of apartheid, South Africa’s economic challenges have disrupted efforts to establish a society of inclusive growth and prosperity...
Economic complexity Foreign Direct Investment FDIJournal Article
Linked-in by FDI: The role of firm-level relationships for knowledge transfers in Africa and AsiaThis study combines evidence from interviews in seven countries with (i) government institutions responsible for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), (ii) 102 multinationals (MNEs), and (iii) 226 domestic firms linked to these foreign affiliat...
Foreign Direct Investment Technology transfer AfricaWorking Paper
Turnin’ it up a notch: how spillovers from foreign direct investment boost the complexity of South Africa’s exportsCountries’ economic complexity, and the associated diversification and sophistication of their exports, is a key determinant of economic growth...
Economic complexity Foreign Direct Investment FDIBlog
How multinationals continue to avoid paying hundreds of billions of dollars in tax: New research
Tax havens have become a defining feature of the global financial system. Multinational companies can use various schemes to avoid paying taxes in countries where they make vast revenues...
Corporate income tax Taxation Profit shiftingJournal Article
Estimating the scale of profit shifting and tax revenue losses related to foreign direct investmentPart of Journal Special Issue Public economics and development action
Foreign Direct Investment Corporate income tax Tax avoidanceWorking Paper
Linkages and spillover effects of South African foreign direct investment in Botswana and KenyaIn recent decades, the impact of South African foreign direct investment in Africa has been captured by research and policy. This paper investigates linkages and spillover effects of South African foreign direct investment in Botswana and Kenya...
Foreign Direct Investment Economic linkages Spillover effectsWorking Paper
Linked in by foreign direct investment: The role of firm-level relationships in knowledge transfers in Africa and AsiaThis study combines evidence from interviews in seven countries with (i) government institutions responsible for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), (ii) 102 multinational enterprises (MNEs), and (iii) 226 domestic firms linked to these forei...
FDI Technology transfer Knowledge transfersJournal Article
When Do Developing Countries Negotiate Away Their Corporate Tax Base?Part of Journal Special Issue Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development
Developing countries Foreign Direct Investment Corporate taxWorking Paper
Estimating the scale of profit shifting and tax revenue losses related to foreign direct investmentGovernments’ revenues are lower when multinational enterprises avoid paying corporate income tax by shifting their profits to tax havens...
Foreign Direct Investment Corporate income tax Tax avoidanceWorking Paper
What makes countries negotiate away their corporate tax base?Qualitative case studies suggest that the outcomes of tax treaty negotiations are determined by power politics and negotiating capability...
Developing countries Foreign Direct Investment TaxationJournal Article
Export Spillovers: Comparative Evidence From Kenya and MalaysiaPart of Journal Special Issue Learning to Compete
Export Spillovers Foreign Direct Investment ManufacturingWorking Paper
Links between foreign direct investment and human capital formation: Evidence from the manufacturing sector in IndiaThis paper is related to the literature on the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the labour market of host countries...
Foreign Direct Investment Human capital Labour demandIn the media
Is foreign direct investment driving capital flight from Africa? Real News interviews Léonce Ndikumana on a recent UNU-WIDER studyReal News interviewed Léonce Ndikumana, director of the Foreign Policy Programme at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), on a recent WIDER Working Paper on capital flight from sub-Saharan African countries authored by Ndikumana and Mare...
Extractives Foreign Direct Investment Capital flight