Who benefits from foreign direct investment in the UK?

Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 119-133

  Girma, Sourafel ^a   Greenaway, David ^a   Wakelin, Katharine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INCOME; INVESTMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; WAGE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0006747445     PISSN: 00369292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9485.00189     Document Type: Article

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