Purpose - Foreign capital flows play an important role in the growth process of countries. While developed countries need foreign for sustainable growth, developing to reduce debt imbalances, create macroeconomic stability and achieve economic growth. flows; are divided into direct investments (FDI) portfolio (FPI). Studies on these trends generally focused investments. aimed at measuring effec...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is crucial to support economic development for developed and developing countries. The aim of this paper examine the effect on poverty alleviation in East Africa Countries. study adopted a time series data research design where by secondary were used. population applied financial records from 1987/88 - 2017/18 years (Annual Data). sample size was 31 annual observ...

Economic growth and development of a country rely on trade as it serves driving force with efficient utilization factor endowments. Several commodities are traded world-wide, among them spices which has long history being one the highly commodity. Developing countries including India leading producer exporter in world. The demand for Indian gone up United States America, Vietnam, Arab Emirates,...

The Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, founded in 2004, brings together researchers from several countries in the Americas who have carried out empirical studies of the social and environmental impacts of economic liberalization. The goal of the Working Group Project is to contribute empirical research and policy analysis to the ongoing policy debates on national econ...

Adrian Hearn Despite significant differences in economic and demographic scale, the governments of Cuba and China have confronted a comparable “dual” challenge as they open their economies to foreign investment. (UNCTAD, 2005; United Nations Population Information Network, 2005) The first part of this challenge has been to promote greater interdependence and collaboration between foreign multin...

Trade and foreign direct investments (FDI) represent the real capital side of international economic integration. While Network Analysis (NA) on world trade network (WTN) is wide, few analyses describe investment networks (WIN), since FDI data suitable for comparison are very scarce complex to collect. In this paper, we exploit Bilateral Statistics by UNCTAD (2014), compare WTN WIN in first dec...

Analyzing world maritime flows, the Mediterranean Sea is playing an increasingly central role in scenarios of goods transport and logistics: from 2006 to 2021 traffic increased by 108% today area involved at least 12% worldwide flows (Notteboom et al., 2019). fact, whole Med has a strategic related its key positioning along major East-West trading routes that linked all most important freight m...

The Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas, founded in 2004, brings together economic researchers from several countries in the Americas who have carried out empirical studies of the social and environmental impacts of economic liberalization. The Working Group's goal is to contribute empirical research and policy analysis to the ongoing policy debates on national economic...

• Enlarging complexity of global production and consumption chains (internationalisation of production), connecting economic agents and nodes located in very distant places, whose overall control is normally in the hands of transnational corporations. This constitutes a radical shift in relation to the traditional economic paradigm that conceived production essentially as an endogenous and nati...

Developed countries face the risk of a sustained lack of aggregate demand, i.e. secular stagnation. Demand-oriented growth models emphasizing the balance-of-payments constraint raise concerns about attendant adverse growth impacts on developing countries from reduced export growth. These concerns are well-founded, albeit less serious than the simplest version of these models would imply. Relaxi...