Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Developing Countries: How Relevant Are Host-country and Industry Characteristics?

Conclusive evidence supporting the widely held view that developing countries should draw on foreign direct investment (FDI) to spur economic development is surprisingly hard to come by. We raise the proposition that results on the growth impact of FDI ar

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Year of publication:	2003-11
Authors:	Nunnenkamp, Peter ; Spatz, Julius
Institutions:	Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW)
Subject:	foreign direct investment stocks \| resource-seeking \| market-seeking and efficiency-seeking FDI \| host-country characteristics \| industry characteristics \| economic growth effects

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Kiel Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	54 pages
Classification:	F21 - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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