“...Empirical findings of a negative association between female participation in politics and the labor market, and levels of corruption have received great...”

“...Global foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased substantially over the past decades and so has FDI in Africa. However, still only 3 percent of global FDI...”

“...* Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are an increasingly popular policy instrument aimed at attracting investment and inducing structural change. * Today, there are...”

“...In cooperation with the World Free Zones Organization, the IfW Kiel has conducted a survey among special economic zones on the impairment of their economic...”

“...Im Jahr 2019 wurden Dienstleistungen im Wert von rund 285 Milliarden Euro aus Deutschland exportiert. Der Anteil der Dienstleistungen an den gesamten...”

“...In this paper, we exploit exogenous variation in navigability of the Rhine river to analyze the impact of weather-related supply shocks on economic activity in...”

“...MPFD Working paper series ; 17/09. Bangkok : United Nations ESCAP, 26 p.; This paper analyses the governance-development nexus by using data from up to 160...”

“...Global economic activity has remained sluggish in the first half of 2019 and will gather momentum only slowly. While economic activity in industrial countries...”

“...This paper revisits the hypothesis that landlocked regions are systematically poorer than regions with ocean access, using panel data for 1,527 subnational...”