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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Foreign ownership"”.
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South Africa awaits a possible new law banning foreign ownership and restricting domestic ownership of agricultural land: Is this in line with this country's obligations and commitments under the GATS and its BITS?
… This potential new law aims to prohibit foreign ownership of agricultural land and to place ceilings on the size of agricultural land that citizens and foreigners may own. Foreigners will be allowed to conclude long term leases. Some parties most likely to be affected by this proposed new …
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The Impact of Firm Ownership on Innovation: Evidence From China
… from 2013 to 2019 to focus on the impact of five ownership structures on firm innovation. In this context, innovation refers to firm performance innovation, specialisation innovation and diversification innovation. The results show that concentrated ownership is positively related to firm …
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A critical analysis of New Zealand's policy disallowing foreign investment in New Zealand fish quota: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Resource Studies (Honours) at Lincoln University
… 1970s the New Zealand fishery was dominated by foreign fishing vessels. The introduction of the Fisheries Act 1983 marked the beginning of a phasing out of foreign fishing effort in New Zealand waters. The Act, and its amendments, ban foreign ownership of New Zealand fish quota. However, this …
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Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Sahara Africa.
… the current and potential role of inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the economic development of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is motivated by the recent rise of inward FDI from both developed and developing countries into SSA, considering the attendant impact of foreign ownership on …
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Trade Policy, Processing, and New Zealand Forestry
… come to embody the current New Zealand debate on foreign ownership, environmental concerns, and in particular, the costs and benefits of encouraging the domestic processing of New Zealand's resources. However, despite its substantial importance to the New Zealand economy, surprisingly little …
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Three Essays on the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Productivity
… a better understanding of the role of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and the productivity relationship by providing both a theoretical and empirical contribution to the existing literature. Chapter 2 studies how inward FDI can affect economic growth. We extend a leader-follower …
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ESSAYS ON GLOBALIZATION, LABOR MARKET, AND PRODUCTIVITY
… 3 examines two novel productivity effects of foreign ownership and foreign acquisitions on Chinese high-tech manufacturing firms: the dynamic and the non-(Hicks)-neutral effects. The dynamic productivity effect of foreign ownership arises because adoption of foreign technology and management …
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How is Sectoral FDI Affecting Firms’ Performance in Mozambique?
… using comprehensive firm level data. Although foreign ownership has a positive effect on firms’ productivity, my results show that in general, sectoral FDI has a negative and statistically significant effect on Mozambican firms’ productivity. The findings of this study are similar to previous …
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Determinants of foreign direct investment into sub-saharan Africa and its impact on economic growth.
… objective is to examine the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This further to investigate how SSA countries compare in their FDI determinants with other countries from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). These are the two least recipient …
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Business activities, competitive advantages, ownership types of the textile and apparel industries in China
… physical and financial resources. Firms with foreign-ownership or foreign partnership were more likely engaged in non-manufacturing business activities. The findings may help investors identify key products, services, and resources to be prepared for success in today's T&A industries in China.
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Measuring technical efficiency in Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector: a two-stage DEA Tobit approach
… found no evidence of a relationship between foreign ownership and manufacturing productivity in Zimbabwe. By identifying factors that affect efficiency as well as measuring their impact on manufacturing efficiency this paper answers the bigger policy question: how to reindustrialise Zimbabwe …
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The impact of corporate governance and ownership structure on performance and financial decisions of firms : evidence from Jordan
… conflicts in determining corporate performance, foreign investment and corporate financial decisions. For this purpose, it uses firm-level corporate governance and ownership data from Jordan. Jordan is an economy in which the prevailing corporate structures and regulatory mechanisms provide a …
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Asian Export Performance: Diversification, Product Variety, and Productivity
… between productivity and exporting. Second, foreign ownership of firms is incorporated into the model as the key intermediating variable between exporting and manufacturing productivity. The model is estimated using a new firm-level panel dataset compiled from unpublished returns to the …
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Asian Export Performance: Diversification, Product Variety, and Productivity
… between productivity and exporting. Second, foreign ownership of firms is incorporated into the model as the key intermediating variable between exporting and manufacturing productivity. The model is estimated using a new firm-level panel dataset compiled from unpublished returns to the …
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Mass Media and the Domestic Politics of Economic Globalization
… with this theory. The second article, "Media Ownership and the Social Construction of Economic Globalization," argues that the response of mass publics toward the global economic exposure of their country varies according to the degree of foreign ownership in the national media market. …
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Corporate governance and financial performance: Evidence from the Ghanian banking sector
… board size, board composition, bank size and foreign ownership are positively but insignificantly related to profitability in terms of return on asset and return on equity, while board committees have a positive and statistically significant impact on financial performance which is consistent …
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Industrial concentration and competition in Indonesian manufacturing
… six key variables (concentration, profitability, foreign ownership, export intensity, import penetration and trade policy) are estimated for two different policy periods; (1) pre-1986 period of heavy trade and industry policy intervention, and (2) post-1986 period of trade and industry …
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Industrial concentration and competition in Indonesian manufacturing
… six key variables (concentration, profitability, foreign ownership, export intensity, import penetration and trade policy) are estimated for two different policy periods; (1) pre-1986 period of heavy trade and industry policy intervention, and (2) post-1986 period of trade and industry …
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Essays on Industrial Development
… firm survival, and the relationship between ownership, productivity, and exports. The first study examines how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) contributes to rural industrialization using village-level survey data from 2018 and 2021. Employing Instrumental Variables (IV) with a …
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