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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"International trade and investment"”.
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Essays on international trade and investment
This dissertation consists of three essays on international trade and investment. In the first essay, I study how cross-country differences in labor market institutions shape the pattern of international trade with a focus on workers' skill acquisition. I develop an open-economy model in which …
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Searching for common deviations from South Africaﾒs Tax Treaty Policy: The relationship with North Africa, West Asia and Eastern Europe
To achieve a degree of standardisation of the contents of treaties by their members, Model tax conventions were published by international organisations. Consequently, in 1963, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) Model was prepared by developed countries of the world …
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The political economy of migration in China.
Since opening up its economy to international trade and investment in the 1970s, China has undergone the largest transfer of rural populations to urban eras in modern history. In order to achieve these growth levels, massive migration was necessary in order to provide the armies of cheap labor that …
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Corporate networks of international investment and trade
… argues the need for both alternative methods and data to better explain complex trade and investment, (and therefore production patterns), in the modern global economy. The first paper advocates the use of network analysis to address the central research themes in the area of international …
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Transnational Land Acquisitions (TLA) : an evaluation of current legal frameworks and global regulatory responses from a human rights perspective
Transnational land acquisitions (TLA) are promoted by international development agencies such as the World Bank as part of a ‘win-win’ process whereby profitable investment stimulates much needed agricultural and rural development in low-income countries.4 However, there has been widespread …
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The Double Life of State-Owned Enterprises in International Economic Law: States, Corporations or Both?
… recently gained prominence in global markets and feature among the world’s most influential enterprises. The aim of this research project is to analyse the international norms in force regulating whether SOEs are considered state or non- state actors, and their conduct state or non-state …
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A legal analysis of the development of arbitration in Oman with special reference to the enforcement of international arbitral awards
In our time, international arbitration is increasingly considered as the most effective dispute settlement mechanism, and hence a necessary tool for promoting international trade and investment. Thus, treaties and laws have been adopted, and specialised institutions have been set up, in order to …
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Use of and variance from the United Nations model tax treaty clauses for tax treaties concluded by a group of Southern African Development Community Countries
… few years, with many seeing Africa as the next investment destination. This increased growth in international trade and investment could broaden and deepen the tax base for African countries which could be a source of additional tax revenue. In particular, the SADC comprises a group of African …
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Narrowing income disparities as policy priority for inclusive economic growth: An applied computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach on urban and non-urban industries in Myanmar
… 2011, Myanmar has progressively liberalized its international trade and investment policies, resulting in both opportunities and challenges. The rising inequality between urban and non-urban areas, and within urban areas, has become a growing concern for policy makers, in addition to the existing …
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INTERNATIONAL LAWMAKING: EXPORT RESTRICTIONS ON MINERAL RAW MATERIALS
… a global approach to analyzing, discussing, and critiquing the effectiveness of international trade law regulating export restrictions, with an emphasis on trade in mineral raw materials. First, it offers a historical and empirical analysis of export restrictions on raw materials. Second, it …
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Fostering foreign direct investment in the `new' South Africa in the context of a changing world trading system: challenges, opportunities, policies
The focus of this thesis is on foreign direct investment (FDI). This is an aspect of international trade that has recently become increasingly important, not only to developing and developed countries in general, but to South Africa in particular; notably so when this country was admitted back to …