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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 managementWorking Paper
Six development paths in Southeast Asia: Three plus threeSix Southeast Asian countries (Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand) defied Gunnar Myrdal’s pessimistic prognosis in his 1968 volume, Asian Drama, regarding their prospects for devel...
Agricultural productivity Foreign investments Industrial policyWorking Paper
Capital flight and foreign direct investment in Africa: An investigation of the role of natural resource endowmentThis paper aims to provide theoretical and empirical insights into the puzzling simultaneous rise in foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in Africa and capital flight from the continent over the past decades...
Capital Foreign investments Natural resourcesBlog
Understanding FDI spillover mechanisms
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been praised as an important development tool, especially for countries at low levels of industrial development...
Economic development International trade Foreign investmentsBlog
Celebrating 30 years of research for development
The celebration of the 30 th Anniversary of UNU-WIDER presented the ideal opportunity to look back, take stock, and plan ahead...
Economic development Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Gross national productBlog
Economic Lessons from Recent Research for Achieving SDG8
This article is part of UNU’s “ 17 Days, 17 Goals ” series, featuring research and commentary in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, 25-27 September 2015 in New York City...
Business enterprises Capital investments Economic assistance and foreign aidJournal Article
Technology Transfers, Foreign Investment and Productivity SpilloversThis paper explores the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the productivity of host country domestic firms...
Foreign investments Productivity Technological innovationsReport
Firm-Level Technology and Competitiveness in Vietnam: Evidence from 2010-2014 surveysThis report summarises information from the Vietnam Technology and Competitiveness Survey (TCS) that has been conducted every year since 2010, concluding with 2014...
Technology Economic surveys Foreign investmentsBook Chapter
Institutional Reforms, Private Sector, and Economic Growth in AfricaThe aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of institutional reforms on the revival of African economies...
Economic policy (Business enterprises) Economic development Institutional economicsWorking Paper
It Worked in China, so Why not in Africa?: The Political Economy Challenge of Special Economic ZonesAfrican countries have sought to replicate the success of East Asia by implementing special economic zones...
Economic growth Industrial policy International tradeReport
Firm-Level Technology and Competitiveness in Vietnam: Evidence from a Survey in 2013This report summarises information from the 2013 Vietnam Technology and Competitiveness Survey (TCS), developed, in collaboration, by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), the General Statistics Office (GSO) and the Development Econom...
Competition Foreign investments TechnologyBlog
Learning to Compete: Lessons from Vietnam – An Interview with Carol Newman 28 May 2014 In this interview Carol Newman discusses the success of the Vietnamese economic transformation and lessons which can be drawn for Africa...
Entrepreneurship Structural adjustment (Economic policy) Industrial policyWorking Paper
Exporting and Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers: Cambodia’s ExperienceOne feature of exporting firms in Cambodia is that they are not of domestic origin but are foreign firms that export from the moment they are established in Cambodia...
Economic development International trade Foreign investmentsReport
Firm-level Competitiveness and Technology in Vietnam (in Vietnamese) :: Evidence From a Survey in 2012This report summarizes information from the 2012 round of the Vietnam Technology and Competitiveness Survey (TCS), collaboratively developed by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), the General Statistics Office (GSO), and the Develop...
Competition Economic surveys Foreign investmentsReport
Firm-level Competitiveness and Technology in Vietnam :: Evidence From a Survey in 2012This report summarizes information from the 2012 round of the Vietnam Technology and Competitiveness Survey (TCS), collaboratively developed by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), the General Statistics Office (GSO), and the Develop...
Competition Economic surveys Foreign investmentsWorking Paper
Aid and Dutch Disease: Evidence from Moroccan and Tunisian Time-Series DataWe examine aid-induced Dutch Disease—after controlling for the effects of remittances and FDI flows—in the context of two North African countries, Morocco and Tunisia...
Econometric models (Economic development) Foreign investments