POTENTIAL AND ACTUAL FDI SPILLOVERS IN GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS THE ROLE OF FOREIGN INVESTOR CHARACTERISTICS, ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND TRANSMISSION CHANNELS

Potential and Actual FDI Spillovers in Global Value Chains The Role of Foreign Investor Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and Transmission Channels

Using unique survey data on direct supplier-multinational linkages in Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Paring Knives Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, and Vietnam, this paper fi rst evaluates how foreign investors differ from domestic producers in terms of their potential to generate positive spillovers for local suppliers.It fi nds that foreign fi rms outperfor

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The Escola da Terra Program and teacher formation at UFRRJ

The main objective of this article is to present some reflections on the challenges of teacher education in the Escola da Terra Program, considering the pedagogical experiences developed at UFRRJ - Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, in Pot Holders the interface with public policies for rural education.We developed a bibliographical and doc

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