Impact of Foreign Direct Investment and Trade on Economic Growth Shiva S. Makki The World Bank Agapi Somwaru Economic Research Service‚ USDA Contact Author: Shiva S. Makki Room MC 2-509‚ DECRS 1818 H Street‚ N.W. Washington‚ DC 20433 Phone: 202 458-8521; Fax: 202 522-0087 Email: smakk@worldbank.org ABSTRACT Foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade are often seen as important catalysts for economic growth in the developing countries. FDI is an important vehicle of technology transfer from
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Human resource development and Africa’s economic growth: Perspectives for policy planning in Kenya. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation‚ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 10 11. Granger‚ C.W.J.‚ (1969). Investigating causal relations by econometric models and cross-spectral methods. Econometrica‚ 37 (3)‚ 424–438. 12 13. Johnson‚ H. G. (1958). International Trade and Economic Growth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 14 15. Johansen‚ S. and Juselius‚ K. (1990). Maximum Likelihood Estimation
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5/14/2014 Effect of Family Friendly Practices on Labor Productivity Research Project Econometrics FINN 350 Muhammad Asim Group 5 Sana Iqbal Sonia Daryani Sidra Khan Shiraz Sabri 1 Abstract In this report‚ we evaluate and discuss the effects of family friendly workplace practices on labor productivity. We use a sample of around 450 individuals‚ across 4 countries (USA‚ UK‚ France and Germany) and 24 different industries. The relation between labor productivity and FFWP is
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Spring 2006 Introductory Digital Systems Laboratory 1 Memory Classification & Metrics Read-Write Memory Random Access Non-Random Access SRAM FIFO DRAM Non-Volatile Read-Write Memory Read-Only Memory (ROM) LIFO EPROM Mask-Programmed E2PROM FLASH Key Design Metrics: 1. Memory Density (number of bits/μm2) and Size 2. Access Time (time to read or write) and Throughput 3. Power Dissipation L7: 6.111 Spring 2006 Introductory Digital Systems
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South African – German Development Co-operation National Skills Authority – Briefing Paper SCARCE and CRITICAL SKILLS October 2007 Commissioned by the Department of Labour and Briefing Paper for the NSA: Scarce and Critical Skills TABLE OF CONTENTS ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS.........................................................................3 METHODOLOGY AND CONSULTATION ..................................................................4 Consultation during the development of the NSA
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30 September 2010 The relation of consumption and investment in China The Financial Times carries a comment by the author of this blog on a column by Martin Wolf‚ its chief economics commentator‚ on the development of consumption in China. Martin Wolf has a justified reputation as probably the world’s most influential economics columnist. However‚ in this case‚ his argument confuses the issue of the low percentage of consumption in China’s GDP with the rate of growth of China’s consumption and
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International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues Vol. 3‚ No. 3‚ 2013‚ pp.743-751 ISSN: 2146-4138 www.econjournals.com Foreign Aid and Economic Growth in Egypt: A Cointegration Analysis Hoda Abd El Hamid Ali Department of Economics and Foreign Trade‚ Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration‚ Helwan University‚ Cairo‚ Egypt. Tel: 00201003452575. Email: hoda_hawary@yahoo.com ABSTRACT: There is a current and growing debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid‚ especially in
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corporate governance channel associated with pension reforms in developing countries‚ and asks what we know and need to know about it. We know that pension funds are not yet large shareholders of publicly traded firms in developing countries. However‚ econometric results suggest that pension reforms lead to stock market development‚ but do not allow us to identify and separate the corporate governance channel. We know that pension reforms are followed by pro-investor legislation‚ but there is no convincing
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Economic History I (02) ECO 241 Mathematical Economics I (01) ECO 231 Computer Applications I (01) ECO 231 Computer Applications I (02) AIT 203 Ataturk Ilk ve Ink Tarihi III. YEAR Course Code-Name ECO 321 Monetary Economics I (01) ECO 323 Econometrics I ECO 323 Econometrics I (02) ECO 325 Public Finance ECO 327 International Economics I ECO 327 International Economics I (02) Lecturer Timur Han Gür Burak Günalp Lütfi Erden Sevinç Mıhçı Naci Canpolat Hatice Karaçay Çakmak Final Exam Place Hour 15:00-16:45
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Corporate Governance Emerald Article: Corporate socialresponsibility and labor turnover Donald F. Vitaliano Article information: To cite this document: Donald F. Vitaliano‚ (2010)‚"Corporate social responsibility and labor turnover"‚ Corporate Governance‚ Vol. 10 Iss: 5 pp. 563 - 573 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14720701011085544 Downloaded on: 09-11-2012 References: This document contains references to 22 other documents Citations: This document has been cited
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