How does foreign direct investment affect economic growth?

1998/06/01 by E. Borensztein, Eduardo Borensztein, J. De Gregorio +3 · 6,001 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Absorptive capacity #Developing country #Economic Growth and Productivity #Economic growth #Economics #Foreign capital #Foreign direct investment #Global trade and economics #Human capital #Industrial organization #International Business and FDI #International economics #International trade #Macroeconomics #Market economy #Monetary economics #Productivity #Stock (firearms)

paper · doi:10.1016/s0022-1996(97)00033-0

published in Journal of International Economics 45(1), 115-135 (Elsevier BV)

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