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Does foreign direct investment promote development?

This volume gathers the cutting edge of new research on foreign direct investment and host country economic performance, and presents the most sophisticated critiques of current and past inquiries. It presents new results, concludes with an analysis of the implications for contemporary policy debates, and proposed new avenues for future research
eBook, English, ©2005
Institute for International Economics : Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, ©2005
1 online resource (xiv, 411 pages) : illustrations
9781435682801, 9780881324631, 9781281790958, 9786611790950, 1435682807, 0881324639, 1281790958, 6611790950
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The impact of inward FDI on host countries : why such different answers? / Robert E. Lipsey and Fredrik Sjöholm
Disentangling FDI spillover effects : what do firm perceptions tell us? / Beata Smarzynska Javorcik and Mariana Spatareanu
Foreign direct investment and externalities : the case for public intervention / Garrick Blalock and Paul J. Gertler
R & D activities of foreign and national establishments in Turkish manufacturing / Asim Erdilek
Foreign direct investment and local economic development : beyond productivity spillovers / Holger Görg and Eric Strobl
Multinational firms and backward linkages : a critical survey and a simple model / Ping Lin and Kamal Saggi ; Comment / Gordon Hanson, Michael P. Keane
Does foreign direct investment accelerate economic growth? / Maria Carkovic and Ross Levine
Inappropriate pooling of wealthy and poor countries in empirical FDI studies / Bruce A. Blonigen and Miao Grace Wang
Intrafirm trade of US MNCs : findings and implications for models and policies toward trade and investment / Susan E. Feinberg and Michael P. Keane ; Comment / Marc J. Melitz
How does FDI affect host country development? Using industry case studies to make reliable generalizations / Theodore H. Moran
China's policies on FDI : review and evaluation / Guoqiang Long
Is Africa's skepticism of foreign capital justified? Evidence from East African firm survey data / Todd J. Moss, Vijaya Ramachandran, and Manju Kedia Shah ; Comment / Robert Z. Lawrence
Conclusions and implications for FDI policy in developing countries, new methods of research, and a future research agenda / Theodore H. Moran, Edward M. Graham, and Magnus Blomström
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