Download or read book Human Capital Instability and Foreign Investment in Transition Economies written by Michael Spagat and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Infrastructure and Human Capital Apropos Foreign Direct Investment written by Edlira Kruja and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the challenging way of development, transition economies and developing countries deal with the problem of raising regional disparities. Meanwhile, these economies try to attract foreign direct investment in order to attain capital growth and other profits from the spillovers, some peripheral areas lag behind in socio-economic development. Although long discussion is conducted on how countries can attract and profit from foreign direct investment, very little academic work points on how regions can overcome their underdevelopment and manage to attract foreign investment. This book, therefore, offers a deep insight on main regional attraction factors for foreign investors such as infrastructure and human capital. Econometric models and qualitative analyses are engaged to shed light on the importance of these two attraction factors apropos foreign investment in the selected regions. The study outcomes lead to recommendations for the policy makers on how to promote regions that are caught in deprivation. Professionals will find it a valuable trial in the field of regional development, foreign direct investment and development economics in general.
Download or read book The Effect of Human Capital on Inwards FDI written by Artane Rizvanolli and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A country's human capital has been neglected as a potential determinant of inwards foreign direct investment (FDI), both in theory and empirical research. When human capital has been included in models of the determinants of FDI, it appears simply as a control variable or one of the variables in a "kitchen sink" approach, usually without any theoretical rationale for its inclusion or critical discussion of the measures used. The mis-specification that may result from this is advanced as one of the potential explanations for the very diverse findings in previous literature and the failure of the meta-regression analysis (MRA) reported in this thesis to find an 'authentic' effect of human capital on inwards FDI. Accordingly, this research seeks to fill this gap, by identifying the mechanism through which human capital is expected to attract! FDI to European transition economies and drawing conclusions about the most appropriate measures of human capital given the characteristics of the former communist (education) system. The ' productivity-enhancing' skills and traits that (foreign) investors are likely to value in such economies are identified and the manner in which these skills are developed is analysed. In the light of this analysis the conventional human capital measures used in empirical analyses are critically assessed. These contributions are used to develop an empirical model for estimating the effect of human capital on inwards FD[ at country-, sector- and industry-level in 12 European transition economies during the period 1995-2008. Consistent with the results of previous studies. as suggested by the MRA, no significant effect of traditional volume measures of human capital on FDI inflows/stocks/stocks is found. However, some evidence is presented in this thesis indicating that the quality dimension of human capital as measured by cognitive skills proxies may affect inwards 1--"01 in the manufacturing sector. Accordingly, several potential explanations for the findings and some of their implications for future macro-level research focusing on the effects of human capital are explored.
Download or read book Interrelationships Between Human Capital and Social Capital written by Eve Parts and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Capital and the Future of Transition Economies written by Michael Spagat and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Capital and Inward FDI written by Magnus Blomström and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Capital Growth and Inequality in Transition Economies written by Michael Spagat and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Human Capital on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows written by Mohammad Sharif Karimi and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Human Capital (HC) are two areas of paramount importance to the economic growth and prosperity of any developed nation. While FDI and HC individually affect growth, they also reinforce and complement each other with varying effects. Not only have these topics been widely studied, they have also been the inspiration and focal point of two substantial bodies of literature. However, the links between these two engines of growth have been less explored. FDI inflows into developed countries over the past two decades are significantly higher than what developing countries receive and there is a huge gap between them. One of the characteristics of rich industrial economies is the availability of a workforce with a high level of HC. Whether HC has been the key driver of FDI or vice-versa is still a matter of debate.
Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries Policy Considerations for sustainable Growth written by Yasmin Shoaib and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,3, Berlin School of Economics, course: Development Economics, language: English, abstract: Developing countries today have to deal with the question of how to increase economic growth. This phenomenon depends on a variety of factors: political, economic and social ones. Due to globalisation, foreign direct investment (FDI) has become an often discussed issue in literature and is seen as a key factor for economic growth by many developing countries by now. But the effects of FDI are not necessarily positive. In this written assignment, the author would like to introduce policies to be conducted in order to maximise the positive effects and to minimise the negative ones. This paper will start with a definition of the terms developing country and foreign direct investment. In the second part, a short introduction in the controversial theories about the impact on economies of developing countries will be presented. In the following, several national and international policy considerations will be introduced. The paper will end with a conclusion.
Download or read book Human Capital Formation and Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries written by Koji Miyamoto and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Capital and Economic Transformation of China written by Yanqing Jiang and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic Transformation -- . China in Transformation -- Human Capital -- Human Capital in China -- Labor-Force Human Capital -- Technology Diffusion -- Structural Change -- Development Strategies -- Structure and Inequality -- The Role of Human Capital -- A Theoretical Model.
Download or read book Diagnosing Human Capital as a Binding Constraint to Growth written by Miguel Angel Santos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The empirical literature on the contributions of human capital investments to economic growth shows mixed results. While evidence from OECD countries demonstrates that human capital accumulation is associated with growth accelerations, the substantial efforts of developing countries to improve access to and quality of education, as a means for skill accumulation, did not translate into higher income per capita. In this Element, we propose a framework, building on the principles of 'growth diagnostics', to enable practitioners to determine whether human capital investments are a priority for a country's growth strategy. We then discuss and exemplify different tests to diagnose human capital in a place, drawing on the Harvard Growth Lab's experience in different development context, and discuss various policy options to address skill shortages.
Download or read book Human Capital written by Ismail Abdel-Hamid Sirageldin and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers issues of demography and development in the Middle East, the capital value of rising populations, the workings of the labor market, and the impact of migration and urbanization on the region.
Download or read book The Impact of Human Capital and Skill Availability On Attraction of Foreign Direct Investment FDI Into Regions Within Developing Economies written by Arkadiusz Mironko and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When making a strategic location choice multinational corporations (MNCs) examine a number of conditions which influence the investment before settling on the location choice that includes human capital and availability of a skilled workforce. This paper will test the importance of the relationship between geographic distribution and clustering of foreign firms and the influence of human capital and skill present in the regions, generally represented by major cities, on the location choice strategy and innovation activity of foreign investors across regions in the host economy of a developing nation.Testing the data on the location of foreign firms and skilled workforce (among other factors) in the regions across Poland, this study finds that a higher level of presence of skilled workforce in the regions tends to attract higher value-added and service-related foreign subsidiaries into them hence, furthering the development of the host cities and regions.Also, the industries with higher amounts of foreign investment tend to narrow their industrial specialization, in some regions including also smaller regions such as Podkarpackie, while Mazowieckie (the leading region) continues to attract higher value-added and service FDI despite the highest labor cost.
Download or read book Human Capital Formation as an Engine of Growth written by Loong-Hoe Tan and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1999 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East Asian countries have been relatively more advanced than other developing countries in the field of human capital development. Even in the 1960s they managed to attain higher levels of human capital compared with other low- and middle-level economies in the developing world. This volume examines the role of human capital formation in the rapid growth of the East Asian economies. Apart from the formal education variable, other factors such as better health care of the labour force, nutritional status of the population, and on-the-job training are important concerns that were not given sufficient attention in the 1993 World Bank study The East Asian Miracle. This present volume offers many insights of interest to policy-makers and specialists with regard to developing (and transitional) economies.
Download or read book Palgrave Dictionary of Emerging Markets and Transition Economics written by Jens Hölscher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period of transition from socialism to capitalism in parts of Europe and Asia over the past 25 years has attracted considerable interest in academia and beyond. From the Editors of Palgrave's iconic series 'Studies in Economic Transition' comes the Palgrave Dictionary of Emerging Markets and Transition Economics. This dictionary addresses the needs of students, lecturers and the interested general public to quickly find definitions and explanations of topics, institutions, personalities and processes in this historical phase of changing societies, which as such is not concluded. Today newly emerging market economies try to learn from the experiences of transition economies. Those who love The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics will enjoy the format of this Dictionary, which uses an encyclopaedia-based approach, where articles not only define the terms but provide an overview of the evolution of the term or theory and also touch on the current debates.
Download or read book Investing in Human Capital for Economic Development in China written by Gordon G. Liu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a reflection of the current research that explores the mechanism, dynamics and evidence of the impact of human capital on economic development and social well-being in modern China. Composed of keynote speeches and selected papers from The 2005 International Conference of the Chinese Economists Society (www.china-ces.org), it tracks the latest understanding and empirical evidence of the relationships amongst health, education and economic development in China. The book presents a broad spectrum of study topics covering human capital and economic growth; demand, attainment and disparity in both education and health; and investing in human capital and the economic and social returns in China. Distinguished contributors include Robert Fogel, Michael Grossman, Daniel Hamermesh, Gregory Chow and Dean Jamison.
