urban environment - in particular the quality of urban infrastructure - strongly determine the growth-enhancing benefits of … empirically). We analyse several measures of urban infrastructure and look at different world regions, taking a special focus on … to significant deficiencies in terms of urban infrastructure. …

Ukraine is a big country with a developed multimodal transport infrastructure that includes a network of roads …, railways, airports and seaports, as well as pipelines. In addition, the country has significant infrastructure for electricity … apartment. The ongoing armed aggression by the Russian Federation has had a significant impact on Ukrainian infrastructure …

This paper examines the relationship between FDI inflows and welfare improvement in North African countries. Using net … per capita FDI inflows and the UNDP's HDI as the principal variables, our analyses confirm the positive and strongly … significant relationship between net FDI inflows and welfare improvement in North Africa, although we do find significant …

This paper re-examines the relationship between FDI inflows and welfare (or poverty reduction) in Africa. Using FDI net … relationship between FDI net inflows and poverty reduction in Africa but find significant differences among African regions. We … also find that FDI has a greater impact on welfare in poorer countries than it does in wealthier countries. For instance …

Existing studies have often failed to find positive impacts of horizontal FDI on domestic firms. We argue that the two … effects underpinning the impacts of horizontal FDI (i.e., the positive spillover effect and the negative competition effect …) have different degrees of attenuation with distance. As FDI is often distributed unevenly across space, studies without …