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Are less developed countries more exposed to multinational tax avoidance?ARTICLE ON EARLY VIEW: This paper uses a global dataset with information about 210,000 corporations in 142 countries to investigate whether tax avoidance by multinational firms is more prevalent in less-developed countries...
International business enterprises Tax evasion TaxationBlog
Multinational Tax Avoidance in Developing CountriesIn recent years many global firms—including Starbucks, Google, and Amazon—have come under fire for avoiding paying taxes in one country by shifting their profits to a country with lower tax rates...
International business enterprises Tax evasion TaxationWorking Paper
Are less developed countries more exposed to multinational tax avoidance?: Method and evidence from micro-dataNOTE | Revised version May 2017 available. View and download the revised version...
International business enterprises Tax evasion TaxationBook Chapter
Determinants of Industrial Embeddedness :: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in an African EconomyRecent developments in policy initiatives as well as some current practical events have combined to put the spotlight on the issue of industrial embeddedness in sub-Saharan Africa...
Business networks Industrial organization (Economic theory) Industrial relationsBook Chapter
Indonesian Industrialization: A Latecomer Adjusting to CrisesFrom the book: Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
Economic development Economic policy IndustrializationBook Chapter
Committing to Economic Openness in Ireland: The Importance of Domestic Institutional CapabilitiesFrom the book: Development Success
Economic development Economic integration Economic policyBook Chapter
Global Supply Chains in Chinese Industrialization: Impact on Waste Scavenging in Developing CountriesFrom the book: Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century
Business networks Industrialization International business enterprisesWorking Paper
Global Supply Chains in Chinese Industrialization: Impact on Waste Scavenging in Developing CountriesChina has undergone remarkable economic growth spearheaded by industrialization. Chinese industry demands a wide variety of raw materials in increasing amounts in order to manufacture all kinds of products...
Business networks Industrialization International business enterprisesWorking Paper
Indonesian Industrialization: A Latecomer Adjusting to CrisesThis paper examines Indonesia’s industrialization performance and policies, including its latecomer status, its generally rapid growth since the mid-1960s, its pronounced policy and performance episodes, and its ambivalent embrace of globalizat...
Economic development Economic policy IndustrializationJournal Article
Entrepreneurship and human development: A capability approachWe provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities approach (CA)...
Economic development Mathematical models (Economic development) EntrepreneurshipJournal Article
The impact of transport costs on new venture internationalisationThis paper investigates the importance of transport costs in new venture internationalisation, i.e. of firms that start exporting before they are 3 years of age...
International business enterprises International trade TransportationWorking Paper
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Developing Countries’ Terms of TradeThis paper first shows that important economic arguments in favor of the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis of falling terms of trade of developing countries have implicitly relied on the role of multinational corporations and foreign direct investment...
International business enterprises International trade Investments, ForeignWorking Paper
Determinants of Industrial Embeddedness: Evidence from African Manufacturing FirmsRecent developments in policy initiatives as well as some current practical events have combined to put the spotlight on the issue of industrial embeddedness in sub-Saharan Africa...
Business networks Industrial organization (Economic theory) Industrial relationsJournal Article
Globalization and Formal Sector Migration in BrazilPart of Journal Special Issue Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
Commercial policy Globalization International business enterprisesWorking Paper
Entrepreneurship and Human Development: A Capability ApproachWe provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities approach (CA)...
Economic development Mathematical models (Economic development) EntrepreneurshipJournal Special Issue
Fragility and Development in Small Island Developing StatesIn recent years there is a growing concern within the international donor community regarding the plight of a special group of countries labeled as 'Fragile States'...
Conflict management Economic assistance and foreign aid International business enterprises