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Showing 1 to 20 of 294 for “"inflows"”.
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Immigrant inflows and public goods provision
… three chapters with a central theme on Hispanic inflows and public goods provision. The first paper investigates how Hispanic immigrant inflows affect K-12 public education finance in the US. I first document the long-run trend of mean household income and average number of children per household …
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The effect of sovereign debt on Capital inflows to Zambia
… foreign direct investment through capital inflows. This paper examines the effect of capital inflows to Zambia as a result of rising public debt levels. It focuses on the impact of Zambia’s sovereign debt on capital inflows for a period of 15 years (between 2000 and 2015). The findings …
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Macroeconomic effects of foreign direct investment inflows on the host country.
… effects of foreign direct investment inflows on the host country.
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Does foreign aid Inflows promote better governance in Sub-Saharan Africa?
… been experiencing an influx in foreign aid inflows, despite a decline in foreign direct investment. In most cases, due to conditions attached to foreign aid, it has hampered the recipient country's economy compared to the benefits attributed to aid especially for African countries. There …
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The relationship between infrastructure and foreign investment inflows to South Africa
… South Africa has been the top recipient of FDI inflows among SSA countries as it has benefitted from the relatively stable macroeconomic and political environment. South Africa is, however, afflicted by significant deficits in the quality and quantity of economic and social infrastructure. …
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Foreign banking inflows, financial sector development and economic growth in ECOWAS and SADC
… investigates the effects of foreign banking inflows on banking crisis (financial instability) of both regions for the period 1995-2009. This objective is informed by the widely held conventional wisdom that foreign banks lack long term commitment to the domestic financial system and will …
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The effects of exchange rate volatility on private capital inflows in Zambia,1992-2012
… effect of exchange volatility on private capital inflows in Zambia. The investigation used monthly time series data for the period 1992-2012 relating to exchange rate, gross domestic product, foreign direct investment and foreign portfolio investment. Exchange rate volatility was estimated using …
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The effects of exchange rate volatility on private capital inflows in Zambia,1992-2012
… effect of exchange volatility on private capital inflows in Zambia. The investigation used monthly time series data for the period 1992-2012 relating to exchange rate, gross domestic product, foreign direct investment and foreign portfolio investment. Exchange rate volatility was estimated using …
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Freshwater inflows to estuaries : organic carbon and microbial food webs in south-east Australia
Freshwater inflows (FWI) play a crucial role in maintaining estuarine processes and productivity. River regulation and extraction have greatly reduced FWI to estuaries. Little attention has been paid to the role FWI has in delivering organic carbon to estuaries. The aim of this thesis was to define …
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Impacts of Volatility Spillovers, Economic Volatility and Capital Inflows on Mortgage-backed Financial Markets
The first essay explores the dynamic behaviors of mortgage-backed stock returns and their volatility spillovers within the framework of time-varying symmetric, asymmetric and multivariate GARCH-family models. The focus of the chapter is on the dynamics of volatility of the U.S. real estate …
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The relationship between corruption, ease of doing business and FDI inflows in SADC countries
… to investigate the relationship between FDI inflows and corruption and ease of doing business in SADC. The research applies Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) analysis to all 16 SADC countries over a period of 2010 to 2019. The results show that although both corruption and ease of doing …
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The Liberalization of Capital Outflows and Its Positive influence on capital inflows : modelsand empirical analysis
… an increase, rather than decrease, in capital inflows. The aim of this thesis is to explore the paradox. Empirical evidence from four countries, Spain, New Zealand, Italy and Uruguay, is introduced to illustrate the positive influence of capital-outflow liberalizations on capital inflows. Two …
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The Investment Casualties of War: Global Impacts of Armed Conflict on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows
… on global foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows using two measures of conflict intensity: Large conflicts or ‘wars’, with 1000 or more battle-related deaths and small conflicts, between 25-999 battle related deaths in a given year. Throughout the sample, I find that large conflicts are …
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Trade liberalization, fiscal federalism, and foreign capital inflows in the context of the Chinese reforms
In recent years China is increasingly considered as a successful example for a transition towards a market economy. The growth rate of the Chinese economy has averaged 9.5 percent in the past fifteen years. What are the secrets behind the Chinese story? This dissertation aims to answer this …
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Catalytic effects of IMF agreements on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in sub-Saharan Africa
… facilitate foreign capital investments or FDI inflows from multinational corporations and or foreign investors. Through empirical observations, and using a two-stage modelling technique, this research tested and examined this hypothesis. It empirically showed that SSA countries that had IMF …
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