Foreign investment inflows, government institutions, external openness, and economic growth in developing countries a theoretical and empirical investigation

... availability of data, a sample includes 32 developing countries from South Asia, East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America is used A more details of the data and variables are given in the Appendix ... building institutions, maintaining favorable external economic policies tend to increase R&D and to maintain higher growth According to the findings of the thesis, government institutions and external ... of Variables and Data The net FDI as a share of GDP is used as the dependent variable FDI is defined as an investment involving a long-term relationship and reflecting a lasting interest and...

Tài liệu Indoor air pollution in developing countries: a major environmental and public health challenge doc

... uncertainty about the mechanisms whereby smoke causes emphysema and airway disease Oxidative stress may be a component, as oxidizing radicals are present in tobacco and biomass smoke and are released ... disease from indoor air pollution in India In: Raw G, Aizlewood C, Warren P, eds Indoor Air 99, the 8th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, August 1999, Edinburgh London, ... made to quantify the impact of exposure to air pollution, including that arising from indoor air pollution, globally (126, 127) and in India (128) Broadly, two approaches have been adopted (Table...

Applications and economic implications in developing countries

... Opportunities and constraints for using gene-based technologies in animal agriculture in developing countries and possible role of international donor agencies in promoting R&D in this ﬁeld In FAO/IAEA international ... and opportunities of the developing world Developing countries are ﬁnding it increasingly expensive to access and use new technologies There is limited private- and public-sector investment in ... analysis of rinderpest viruses has been vital in determining the lineages circulating in the world and instrumental in aiding the Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme Enzyme-linked immunosorbent...

Economics of Air Pollution and Health in Developing Countries: A Brief Literature Survey docx

... on the results of a literature search of buildings-related, business and legal databases, and interviews with insurance and risk management representatives aimed at finding information on the direct ... 'Estimating the Health Damage Costs of Air Pollution' , in Holgate, S., Koren, H., Samet, J and Maynard, R (Eds), Air Pollution and Health, Academic Press, London, pp917-928 Saroa da Motta, Ronaldo ... Gunnar S., 1997 Air Pollution Requires Multipollutant Analysis: The Case of Santiago, Chile”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 79: 1636-1641 Krupnik, Alan and Anna Alberini 1997, “Air...

Improving Maternal, Newborn, Child Health, and Family Planning Programs through the Application of Collaborative Improvement in Developing Countries: A Practical Orientation Guide pptx

... Guatemala Photo by Mélida Chaguaceda, URC TECHNICAL REPORT Improving Maternal, Newborn, Child Health, and Family Planning Programs through the Application of Collaborative Improvement in Developing ... can be made available Recent examples of the value of collaborative improvement in maternal, newborn, child health, and family planning HCI has applied modern QI approaches, particularly collaborative ... collaborative improvement, in maternal, newborn, child health, and family planning (MNCH/FP) programs across Africa, Asia, and Latin America Illustrative cases of significant improvement achieved in...

báo cáo sinh học:" Human resources and the quality of emergency obstetric care in developing countries: a systematic review of the literature" potx

... inadequacy of human resources (HR) in developing countries In the health sector in general, and in maternal health in particular, health care professionals are at the heart of the success of EmOC interventions ... remainder of the analysis was carried out using the data extraction form and the analytical framework presented in the following section Analytical framework The concept of "quality of care" was defined ... affect the availability of HR for EmOC They point out that these staff shortages weaken the quality of care by increasing professionals' workloads and patients' waiting times and making infection...

báo cáo sinh học:" Are doctors and nurses associated with coverage of essential health services in developing countries? A cross-sectional study" ppt

... Bivariate associations Model set (doctors and nurses) Land area (km2) Population in rural area (%) Adjusted R2 Model set (aggregate health workers) Land area (km2) Population in rural area (%) Adjusted ... between doctors and vaccine coverage We did not find any associations between doctors and nurses and coverage of the other essential health services: antenatal care, TB diagnosis and care for ARI ... Overall, land area and the fraction of the population that was rural behaved as expected; they were negatively associated with ANC, SBA and caesarean section Our analysis had several important...

báo cáo khoa học: " Benefits of global partnerships to facilitate access to medicines in developing countries: a multi-country analysis of patients and patient outcomes in GIPAP" pps

... Russia and Georgia from Europe; China, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Thailand from Asia In the Chinese context, each of China's provinces and municipal entities has its own healthcare infrastructure ... models of enabling access, providing effective and targeted health care and making healthcare affordable to patients in developing countries in the absence of a formal health insurance coverage system ... China Charity Foundation and Axios International, to facilitate access to and distribution of imatinib directly to patients through their providers GIPAP aims to fill the gaps of imperfect access...

the failure of e-government in developing countries a literature review

... promotional campaigns Cecchini and Raina (2004) go on to say that the local administrative and political actors need to be involved in the implementation of the project, otherwise the likelihood of failure ... transferred It is this idea of gaps as conceptualised by Heeks (2002) that can be seen as a framework upon which almost all available literature on the failure of e-government in developing countries ... articles available in information systems literature that deal with the failure of information systems (e.g., Lyytinen and Hirschheim, 1987; Horton and Lewis, 1991) and the failure of information...

Impacts of AFTA on Government revenue, external trade, and FDI of Lao PDR

... situation of AFTA s CEPT scheme of Lao PDR; and  Be able to measure the changes in the magnitude of the Lao government revenue, expansion of external trade to the regional markets, and growth of FDI ... approaches, and time periods 1.6 Scope of Study The scope of this study is to focus on the impacts of regional economic integration, namely AFTA on the Lao government revenue, external trade, and FDI ... 3.1.2 Econometric Approach 44 3.2 Data Collection 51 CHAPTER 4: IMPACTS OF AFTA ON ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, GOVERNMENT REVENUE, EXTERNAL TRADE AND FDI 53 4.1 Lao PDR Economic...

Analytical models on the relation between foreign direct investment and economic growth in vietnam

... the relation between FDI and economic growth in Vietnam at both macroeconomic and microeconomic levels The thesis applies the VAR model to measure and analyze the relation between FDI and economic ... be on par with other countries in the region Structure of the thesis Thesis name: Analytical models on relation between Foreign Direct Investment and economic growth in Vietnam In addition ... economic growth in Vietnam , the thesis focuses on studying the rationale for the relation between FDI and economic growth Based on analysis of the reality of economic growth and FDI attraction...

Does a Causal Link Exist between Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in the Asian NIEs

... the causal links between FDI and GDP and the causality of these two variables by looking at a sample of 31 developing counties in Asia, Latin America, and Africa for the period of 1970-2000 They ... Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, this paper tests the causal relationship between the two variables of GDP growth and FDI inflow Data for Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, ... we can find that inconsistency in the causal link between FDI and GDP The Granger causality test including the export variable results in different patterns of the causal link between FDI and...

CENTRAL BANKING, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND CREDIT CREATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ppt

... 30 CENTRAL BANKING, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND CREDIT CREATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Sebastian Dullien Abstract This paper examines how developing countries can embark on a sustained path ... RETHINKING THE SAVING-INVESTMENT NEXUS III THE ROLE OF CREDIT CREATION IN THE INVESTMENT-SAVINGS PROCESS 10 A Impediments for financial institutions 13 B Limits to central ... CENTRAL BANKING, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND CREDIT CREATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Sebastian Dullien No 193 January 2009 Acknowledgement:...

Tài liệu Child health inequities in developing countries: differences across urban and rural areas pptx

... socioeconomic inequalities in health in developing countries, by examining differences across urban and rural areas in health inequalities Specifically, the goals of this study are: (1) to document and ... in slums and peri -urban areas than in more privileged urban neighborhoods, and even than in rural areas [4,9] The evidence of large and even widening inequalities in health between the rich and ... compare the magnitude of inequities in child malnutrition across urban and rural areas; and (2) to investigate the extent to which socioeconomic inequalities1 in urban areas are accounted for...

Tài liệu Schooling and Adolescent Reproductive Behavior in Developing Countries docx

... ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND BEHAVIOR 3.1 Early marriage and childbearing 3.2 Unprotected Sex among adolescents 10 11 SCHOOLING AND ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR Sexual initiation and schooling ... a decline in the percent marrying before 18 in 24 countries and no change in countries The percent having premarital sex by age 18 has risen in 20 countries, and remained unchanged in countries ... remain, above 30 percent in Bangladesh and in many sub-Saharan African countries and as high as 28% in India Thus in many countries, child marriage remains an important factor in adolescent reproductive...

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