scholarly journals EXPLORING THE COMPLEMENTARITY BETWEEN FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY, EMBEDDED TECHNOLOGY AND INCREASE OF PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer González-Blanco ◽  
Mercedes Vila-Alonso ◽  
Manuel Guisado-González
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Productive Capacity ◽  
Foreign Technology ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Random Effects Models ◽  
Embedded Technology ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
License Agreements ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

This study analyzes the complementarity of foreign technology acquired under license agreements, technology embedded in machinery and equipment and increase in a company’s productive capacity. We use panel data on Brazilian manufacturing companies from the World Bank Surveys. We used the random effects models, estimated by maximum likelihood. The results indicate that foreign technology, embedded technology and increase of productive capacity have a positive and significant impact on labor productivity. The complementarity test reveals that the relationship between the two technologies analyzed is conditionally substitutive and that the relationship between each of these technologies and increase of productive capacity is conditionally complementary.

Human Capital and Agriculture Performance in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Eny Lestari Widarni ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Vector Direction ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to investigate the vector direction of the relationship between agriculture performance, employment in agriculture, and education in Indonesia. This research uses the vector analysis method. where the dependent variable and the independent variable take turns to see the direction of the relationship of each variable to each other. All data used in this study are sourced from the world bank data. We found that labor absorption in the agricultural sector in Indonesia continues to decline very sharply, it becomes a threat to agriculture performance in the future. Because there is a decline in performance in the future due to labor shortages and it is possible that the agricultural sector will be completely destroyed when there is a shortage of labor in this sector if the interest of the Indonesian youth in the agricultural sector is not invested.

De Facto Demilitarization: Budget-Driven Downsizing in Latin America

1994 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrice Franko
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Defense Spending ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Past President ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Control Community ◽  
Military Expenditures ◽  
The Relationship

The international financial community has recently joined the arms control community in scrutinizing the relationship between military spending and economic growth. The Independent Group on Financial Flows to Developing Countries, headed by Helmut Schmidt, recommended (in Facing One World) that priority in financial assistance be given to countries that spend less than 2% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on security (The Economist, 1991a: 61). Robert McNamara, past president of the World Bank as well as a former US Secretary of Defense, supported this proposal in his speech before the World Bank Annual Conference on Development Economics (April 1991), recommending that military expenditures, as a percentage of GDP, be reduced by 50%. Nicole Ball, in Pressing for Peace: Can Aid Induce Reform?, argues cogently for conditioning international assistance on the initiation, or acceleration, of reforms in defense spending in the developing world (Ball, 1992).

Finding and facing facts about legal systems and foreign direct investment in South Asia

Legal Studies ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Perry-Kessaris
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
South Asia ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Statistical Regression ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

It has become commonplace to argue that foreign direct investment (FDI) flows are to some extent determined by the effectiveness of host state legal systems – the institutions and officials involved in the creation and implementation of law, including courts and judges, bureaucrats, and politicians, in their capacity as makers and implementers of law. The primary concern of the paper is how this dominant theory can be tested – that is, what methods can we use to test the extent to which the effectiveness of legal systems affects success in attracting FDI? The analysis focuses in particular on South Asia, the US and the UK, The paper considers what data on FDI and legal systems are necessary and available for conducting a statistical regression test of the theory. It establishes that the data available until recently were inadequate. The paper then considers the extent to which recent empirical studies, conducted under the auspices of the World Bank, produce useful facts for the purpose of testing the relationship between FDI and legal systems. These new data sets are recommended by the World Bank Group's Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS), and thus provide a useful insight into the type of information assumed by theorists to be available, and useful, to investors. The paper therefore also considers how the theory that legal systems are determinants of FDI can be implemented by investors – that is, what information exists upon which they can base their location decisions? It is concluded that many points, fundamental and finer, about the relationship between legal systems and FDI remain to be explored. We have a neat, intellectually appealing theory. Sadly, we still do not have the facts to test it, nor for investors to implement it.

Queer in the Time of Homocapitalism

Out of Time ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 136-173
Author(s):  
Rahul Rao
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

In the wake of Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Act, the World Bank cancelled a loan to the country, precipitating the production of international economic governmentality to promote respect for LGBTI rights, or what this chapter calls ‘homocapitalism’. The chapter reads this development as part of the instrumentalization of gender and sexuality for the rehabilitation of capitalism following the most recent global financial crisis. It argues that the Bank’s efforts to disincentivize homophobia by ascribing it a cost reinforce the hegemony of neoliberal reason. The chapter criticizes the Bank’s culturalist understanding of homophobia, arguing that this allows it to position itself as external to the problem, rather than as implicated in its production. It offers a political economy account of homophobia in Uganda that highlights the relationship between neoliberalism and Pentecostal Christianity, a key vehicle for conservative discourses around sexuality. It concludes with reflections on how homocapitalism might be resisted.

Potentialities in Applying Foucault’s Discourse Analysis to World Bank Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Sarah Moritz
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
World Bank ◽  
It Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
International Authority ◽  
The World ◽  
External Actors ◽  
The Relationship

Applying the discourse analysis methods of Michel Foucault to reports researched and published by the World Bank may reveal certain kinds of thinking embedded in the work of the institution, and this may serve as an important resource or vehicle for understanding the relationship between the World Bank and the societies it services. Such insight is important because it acts as an international authority on the alleviation of poverty and inequality, and as an informative resource for other institutions and the public. For this reason, it is necessary to ensure its research does not cause unnecessary harm to the societies in which it operates, which are often vulnerable to external actors.

Research Findings and International Institutional Recommended Principles

2019 ◽  
pp. 64-86
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Development Index ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Telecommunication Infrastructure ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Inclusive Society ◽  
Human Capital Index ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the relationship between the centric ratings (for USA, EU, India, South East Asia, Australia, and NZ) and six key United Nations ICT societal variables, namely, eGovernment Development Index, Online Service Index, Telecommunication Infrastructure Index, Human Capital Index, eParticipation Index, and Human Development Index. The chapter then examines the digital strategic principles identified by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and World Bank. The findings suggest that the main difference between the recommended digital strategies of OECD and World Bank is the way they view the citizen and civil society. OECD sees the citizen and civil society in broad terms, whereas the World Bank focuses on different categories of citizens and civil society. This micro-view enables the World Bank to make specific recommendations regarding how the digital age can assist in developing all categories of people to achieve a truly digital inclusive society.

scholarly journals ENTRE CONCEITOS E ACORDOS: AS POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS PARA A EDUCAÇÃO À (SOB A) LUZ DO BANCO MUNDIAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-25
Author(s):  
Flávio José de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Neoliberal Ideology ◽  
The Relationship

RESUMO :Este artigo tem como objetivo discutir os impactos que a economia e a política neoliberais têm causado na sociedade brasileira a partir da análise crítica do último relatório do Branco Mundial sobre o Brasil. De modo mais específico aqui nos interessa as consequências para o âmbito da educação. Identificamos os conceitos de sociedade e de educação disseminados pelo ideário neoliberal e que se manifestam no relatório, e também nos ocupamos com a relação entre eles e as afirmações e orientações disseminadas no relatório. Por fim, questionamos os impactos desastrosos que tais orientações causaram e causarão no bem-estar das cidadãs e dos cidadãos brasileiros, os quais convocamos para a resistência.Palavras-chave: Políticas Públicas; Banco Mundial; Neoliberalismo; Resistência Política. ABSTRACT :This paper aims to discuss the impacts that neoliberal economy has caused in Brazilian society, based on the critical analysis of the last report of the World Bank about Brazil. More specifically, we are concerned here with the consequences for the scope of education. We identify the concepts of society and education which are disseminated by neoliberal ideology through the report. We deal with the relationship between these concepts and the assertions and orientations from the report. Finally, we make questions about the disastrous impacts that these guidances has caused and they will cause in the Brazilian citizens’ welfare, we call them for resistance.Key-words: Public Policies; World Bank; Neoliberalism; Political Resistance.

scholarly journals BEHAVIOUR OF STOCK MARKET DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: THE MALAYSIAN EXPERIENCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Noor Sahlawaty bt Ghazali ◽  
Maran Marimuthu
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Economic Trend ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
World Health ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Relationship

The COVID-19 outbreak was triggered in Wuhan, China in December 2019. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a public health emergency in January 2020. The literature shows that the COVID-19 pandemic slowed the Malaysian economy. According to the World Bank, Malaysia GDP is USD336.7 bill in 2020, USD 364.7 bill in 2019, a USD28bill reduction or 7.67%. The Malaysian government is trying to address this scenario, it is important to establish and apply expansionary fiscal measures. The dread of the virus's danger has caused people to cease living, working, socializing, doing business, and the other normal activities. Economic consequences are very unclear, making it difficult to take adequate steps to reverse the downward economic trend. The present research analyses the potential economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Malaysian economy using a systematic review approach. Also, econometric study to determine the degree of integration between the FBMKLI and the COVID-19 daily infected cases. The findings show the relationship between COVID-19 infected cases and the performance of the FBMKLI. Keywords: COVID-19, FBMKLI, Correlation, Malaysia, Systematic Review, Granger causality.

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