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  People
  
  Population 10.63 mln
  
  Population growth 1%
  
  Life expectancy 80 years
  
  Net migration 179,925
  
  Economy
  
  GDP $452.75 bln
  
  - per capita $42,609
  
  - growth rate 3%
  
  FDI, net inflows $72.19 bln
  
  Infrastructure
  
  Cellphone users 101%
  
  Internet users 66%
  
  High-tech exports 7%
  
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Human capital in a global and knowledge-based economy

This report examines the rationale for putting investment in human capital at the forefront of policies aimed at promoting economic growth and social cohesion, as in the strategy outlined in the Lisbon Summit for turning the EU into the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world. Authors: Angel de la Fuente, Instituto de Analisis Economico and Antonio Ciccone, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Published: May 2002

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Ellen Olafsen on November 25, 2002

NEP report on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy

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This listserve provides news on new Economics papers on the topic of "knowledge management and the knowledge economy." It is one of many listserves under the the NEP (New Economic Papers) umbrella. NEP (http://nep.repec.org/) is an announcement service which filters information on new additions to RePEc into edited reports. The goal is to provide subscribers with up-to-date information to the research literature. There are nearly 40,000 subscribers to NEP as this is written. RePEc (Research more...

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John Daly on February 10, 2006

"INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: VOLUME 2: The Experience with Community Telecentres"

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Abstract: "Volume 2 examines the setting, operations, and effects of community telecentres. It describes the telecentre experiences of a variety of local and often rural communities, exploring the management structures and mechanisms that have been established to support these telecentres. The book provides profiles of telecentre usage and discusses the potential and challenges of setting up and maintaining community telecentres in the context of poor information infrastructure and limited more...

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John Daly on June 26, 2005

The New Global Challengers

Companies based in 'rapidly developing economies' are winning share in global markets, making major acquisitions and emerging as important customers, business partners, and competitors to the world’s largest companies. Through a rigorous selection process, the Boston Consulting Group has identified 100 such companies that are posing significant challenges -- and opportunities -- around the globe. This report outlines their six strategic models for globalization and suggests some more...

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Persephone Economou on June 07, 2006

Investing in Afghanistan

Afghanistan is being transformed from a distant landlocked country to a transit nation in the heart of Asia. Major reconstruction efforts are presently under way to rebuild the physical infrastructure necessary to connect Afghanistan to other Central Asian countries and to global markets. Afghanistan can provide investors with the opportunity to take advantage of a low-cost production base for serving the regional market. To facilitate and promote FDI into Afghanistan, the Afghan Investment more...

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Persephone Economou on July 07, 2004

China Quarterly Update

The China Quarterly Update, by the World Bank, provides an update on recent economic and social developments and policies in China, and present findings from ongoing World Bank work on China. This update was published in February 2007. The document is a 22 pages PDF file.

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Etiam Fiagan on April 30, 2007

Search for a New Partnership in Trade and Investment between Latin America and Asia-Pacific

Trade between Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Asia-Pacific (AP), 1 that had increased substantially -albeit from a small base- in the first half of the 1990s, began to slow down after the outbreak of the economic and financial crisis in Asia in mid-1997 and the ensuing severe economic recession in the majority of LAC countries. The incipient drive in bi-regional trade up to the Asian crisis was triggered by the economic boom of the majority of AP countries on the one hand, more...

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Brian Wilcox on May 03, 2007

Foreign Direct Investment in East Asia and Latin America: Is there a People's Republic of China Effect

People’s Republic of China (PRC) in recent years has emerged as the largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the world. Many analysts and government officials in the developing world have increasingly expressed concerns that they are losing competitiveness to PRC. Is PRC diverting FDI from other developing countries? Theoretically, a growing PRC can add to other countries’ direct investment by creating more opportunities for production networking and raising the need more...

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Brian Wilcox on May 03, 2007

Swiss FDI in Latinamerica

Highly integrated in global markets, Swiss companies have also experienced a reduction in foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows in the context of the global FDI recession. While in 1999 total FDI outflows of Swiss companies amounted to CHF50 billion and reached a record CHF75 billion in 2000, they fell to CHF31 billion 2001, and CHF12 billion in 2002. 2 This drop resulted, in the first place, from a sharp decline in FDI outflows in the services sector, namely in the insurance and more...

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Brian Wilcox on May 03, 2007

The Rise and Fall of Dutch FDI in Latin America and the Caribbean: 1990-2002

Outward foreign direct investment from the Netherlands set in a downward trend from 2001 onwards. During the 1990s, Dutch investors dramatically increased stakes worldwide. A buoyant domestic economy, growing global ambitions of Dutch firms and liberalization of capital accounts in emerging-market economies boosted annual outflows from around €10 billion in the beginning of the decade to €80 billion in 2000. In 2002, the flow of outward FDI dropped to €28 billion, almost a third of its more...

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Brian Wilcox on May 03, 2007

FDI in emerging markets: how are they doing and what should they be doing?

This paper was presented by Karl P.Sauvant (Executive director of Columbia Program on International Investment), during the meeting on FDI, Technology and Competitiveness, which was co-organized by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the University of Oxford, Department of International Development, and took place on March 8-9 2007 in Geneva. The author answers these questions: "How are emerging markets doing in terms of attracting FDI" and "what should they do more...

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Etiam Fiagan on May 02, 2007

Vying for Foreign Direct Investment: A EU-type Model of Tax Competition

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Abstract: "This paper brings out the special mechanism through which taxes influence bilateral FDI, when investment decisions are two-fold in the presence of fixed setup flows costs. For each pair of source-host countries, there is a set of factors determining whether aggregate FDI flows will occur at all, and a different set of factors determining the volume of FDI flows (provided they occur). We develop a two-country tax competition model which yield an asymmetric Nash-equilibrium with high more...

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Persephone Economou on February 07, 2006

Simplification of Business Regulations at the Sub-National Level: A Reform Implementation Toolkit for Project Teams

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The emphasis in this toolkit is on sub-national regulation generally and municipal regulations specifically, since most interaction between “government” and “business” occurs at the local or regional level. National regulatory policies may influence or affect investment decisions, but post-investment operations are influenced by other levels of government having legal authority over such operational activities -- principally those at the municipal level. This toolkit provides a thorough more...

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Christine Bowers on January 19, 2006

European Innovation Scoreboard 2005

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Abstract: "The fifth edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) reveals that Sweden, Finland Switzerland, Germany and Denmark are the European innovation leaders. Most of the new Member States are engaged in the catching-up process, however, their slow pace is unlikely to allow for short-term convergence in Europe. In addition, should trends for the 25 Member States continue, the innovation gap between Europe and the US will not close. The EIS includes innovation indicators and trend more...

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Persephone Economou on January 18, 2006

Investment Data for the United States

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The latest set of FDI statistics for the United States published in the November 2002 issue of the Survey of Current Business by the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The data include information on the activities of foreign affiliates of U.S. based multinational enterprises.

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Persephone Economou on November 27, 2002

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