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Linked in by foreign direct investment

This 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...

  • FDI
  • Technology transfer
  • Knowledge transfers
Working Paper
Estimating the scale of profit shifting and tax revenue losses related to foreign direct investment

Governments’ revenues are lower when multinational enterprises avoid paying corporate income tax by shifting their profits to tax havens. In this paper, we ask which countries’ tax revenues are affected most by this tax avoidance and how much. To...

  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • Corporate income tax
  • Tax avoidance
Journal 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 tax
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How multinationals continue to avoid paying hundreds of billions of dollars in tax: New research
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by Miroslav Palanský October 2019

Tax havens have become a defining feature of the global financial system. Multinational companies can use various schemes to avoid paying taxes in...

  • Corporate income tax
  • Taxation
  • Profit shifting
Working 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. In contrast, quantitative studies have tended to depart from a model that implies absolute gains, full...

  • Developing countries
  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • Taxation
Blog
Mozambique's difficult decade: Three lessons to inform next steps
by Sam Jones, Finn Tarp June 2021

At the start of the last decade, Mozambique’s prospects looked stellar. Following from the early 1990s, when peace finally arrived after a devastating...

  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • Foreign investments
  • Natural resource management
Journal Article
Estimating the scale of profit shifting and tax revenue losses related to foreign direct investment

Part of Journal Special Issue Public economics and development action

  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • Corporate income tax
  • Tax avoidance
Working Paper
Linkages and spillover effects of South African foreign direct investment in Botswana and Kenya

In 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. The...

  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • Economic linkages
  • Spillover effects
Journal Article
Linked-in by FDI

This 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...

  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • Technology transfer
  • Africa
Working Paper
Turnin’ it up a notch: how spillovers from foreign direct investment boost the complexity of South Africa’s exports

Countries’ economic complexity, and the associated diversification and sophistication of their exports, is a key determinant of economic growth. Understanding how South African firms learn to export more sophisticated products is, therefore, an...

  • Economic complexity
  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • FDI
Journal Article
Export Spillovers

Part of Journal Special Issue Learning to Compete

  • Export Spillovers
  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • Manufacturing
Working Paper
Links between foreign direct investment and human capital formation

This paper is related to the literature on the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the labour market of host countries. Labour market literature has focused on the demand side of FDI; that is, increasing wage inequality by demanding more...

  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • Human capital
  • Labour demand
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Is foreign direct investment driving capital flight from Africa? Real News interviews Léonce Ndikumana on a recent UNU-WIDER study

Real 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 Sarr from University of Cape Town’s School of Economics.

  • Extractives
  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • Capital flight
Research Brief
Turnin’ it up a notch

Since the end of apartheid, South Africa’s economic challenges have disrupted efforts to establish a society of inclusive growth and prosperity. Understanding how South Africa can break the pattern of sluggish growth, high unemployment, inequality...

  • Economic complexity
  • Foreign Direct Investment
  • FDI
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