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Foreign direct investment and economic growth in developing countries : how relevant are host-country and industry characteristics?

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dc.creator Nunnenkamp, Peter
dc.creator Spatz, Julius
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:22:15Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:22:15Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier Kiel working paper Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel 1176
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/3028
dc.identifier ppn:36794023X
dc.identifier ppn:36794023X
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/3028
dc.description 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 are ambiguous because highly aggregated FDI data, used in virtually all previous empirical studies, blur the differences between resourceseeking, market-seeking and efficiency-seeking FDI and ignore the compatibility of different types of FDI with economic conditions prevailing in the host country. Analysing US FDI stocks in major sectors and specific manufacturing industries in a large number of developing countries, we show that positive growth effects of FDI are anything but guaranteed. Rather, hostcountry and industry characteristics as well as the interplay between both sets of characteristics have an important say on the growth impact of FDI in developing countries.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Kiel
dc.relation Kieler Arbeitspapiere 1176
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject F21
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject foreign direct investment stocks , resource-seeking , market-seeking and efficiency-seeking FDI , host-country characteristics
dc.subject Direktinvestition
dc.subject Amerikanisch
dc.subject Wirtschaftswachstum
dc.subject Entwicklung
dc.subject Branche
dc.subject Standortfaktor
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Entwicklungsländer
dc.title Foreign direct investment and economic growth in developing countries : how relevant are host-country and industry characteristics?
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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