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Capital flight from Africa - with a little help from the banks
Book Chapter | Jan 2014
Africa is a source of large-scale capital flight. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on how banks facilitate capital flight from Africa. There ...
Capital flight, illicit capital flows, international finance, banking sector, Africa
With a little help from the banks
Book Chapter | Nov 2017
Africa is a source of large-scale capital flight. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on how banks facilitate capital flight from Africa. There ...
Capital flight, money laundering, tax havens, bank sector, Africa
Is it both what you know and who you know? Human capital, social capital and entrepreneurial success
Journal Article | Jan 2013
This paper analyzes the importance of human and social capital for entrepreneurial success, using survey data of 459 urban entrepreneurs in Luanda, Angola. ...
Entrepreneurship, returns to schooling, human capital, social capital, endogeneity, Angola
Some reasons why capital does not flow from rich to poor countries
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1997
This paper introduces endogenous adoption costs for productive assets in a Ramsey type growth model with international capital flows. There are two c1asses ...
How banks assist capital flight from Africa: A literature review
CMI Report | Jul 2010
Systematic studies of the banking sector’s involvement in facilitating capital flight from developing countries are limited. This report was commissioned ...
Human and financial capital for microenterprise development: Evidence from a field and lab experiment
CMI Working Paper | Feb 2011
Which is the most binding constraint to microenterprise development, human capital or financial capital? To answer this question, we present the first ...
Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency: evidence from microenterprises in Ethiopia
Journal Article | Mar 2014
Absence of a well-developed capital market has been listed as a key obstacle to industrialization in developing countries in the development literature. ...
Microenterprises, Finance, Entry barrier, Clustering, Africa, Ethiopia
Caste discrimination and barriers to microenterprise growth in Nepal
CMI Working Paper | Nov 2012
Studies of microbusiness in poor countries find high marginal returns to capital but also lack of investments. This paper analyzes how caste-based segmentation ...
Nepal
Terms of trade and economic growth in a world of constrained capital mobility
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1997
This paper focuses on the interaction between world community and capital markest within the framework of an extended neoclassical growth model. The model ...
Entrepreneurial abilities and barriers to microenterprise growth: A case study in Nepal
Journal Article | Mar 2015
Studies of microbusiness in poor countries find high marginal returns to capital but also lack of investments. This paper analyses how segmentation in ...
Entrepreneurship, segmentation, economic development, exclusion, Nepal
Capital flight and the banking sector
Project | Oct 2009 - Dec 2010
Capital flight erodes the financial basis of developing countries, and the illicit financial flows are a major constraint for the implementation ...
capital flight, illicit financial flows, tax havens, corruption, banks
Patterns of foreign direct investment in poor countries
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000
This paper introduces endogenous adoption costs for productive assets in a Ramsey type growth model with international capital flows. There are two classes ...
Non-cooperation in fish exploitation. The case of irreversible capital investment in the Arcto- Norwegian cod fishery
CMI Working Paper | Jan 1994
A two-stage, two-player non-cooperative game model is developed under an irreversible capital investment assumption. The main aim is to predict the number ...
Entrepreneurship and human capital: The Malawi case
Book Chapter | Sep 2010
Entrepreneurship and human capital: The Malawi case Ivar Kolstad and Arne Wiig Proceedings of the
Malawi
Besteuerung und Kapitalflucht aus Afrika: Die Steuervermeidungsindustrie [The tax avoidance industry: facilitators of capital flight from Africa]
Newspaper Op-Ed | Sep 2018
To combat the global problems of tax evasion, corruption and money laundering, it is vital to understand the essential role tax havens play as providers ...
Tax havens, capital flight, illicit capital flows, tax evasion, wealth managers, Big Four, Africa
Clustering as an Organizational Response to Capital Market Inefficiency:Evidence from Handloom Enterprises in Ethiopia
Report in External Series | Jan 2010
Using data from microenterprises of the handloom sector in four regions of Ethiopia, the paper shows that clustering, through specialization and ...
clustering, industrialization, finance, microenterprises, Ethiopia, Ethiopia
Micro credit for Sustainable Development in Angola
Project | Jan 2008 - Dec 2010
The general question underlying this project is the following: Under which conditions does microfinance actually assist the poor to move out of poverty ...
Poverty, Social capital, Human capital, Angola
Human and financial capital for microenterprise development: Evidence from a field and lab experiment
Journal Article | Jan 2015
Microenterprises constitute an important source of employment, and developing such enterprises is a key policy concern in most countries. But what is ...
Bringing the State back in. Corporate Social Responsibility and the paradoxes of Norwegian state capitalism in the international energy sector
Journal Article | Oct 2020
This theme section brings the state back into anthropological studies of corporate social responsibility through the lens of Norwegian energy corporations ...
Poverty reduction through microbusiness
CMI Brief | Nov 2012
Microbusiness can be an effective way out of poverty. Returns to capital for microbusinesses in poor rural areas can be so high that people with microbusinesses ...
Nepal