Targeting winners: Can foreign direct investment policy help developing countries industrialise?

European Journal of Development Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 499-530

  Mortimore, Michael ^a   Vergara, Sebastian ^a  

^a United Nations Economic Commission   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; GLOBALIZATION; INDUSTRIALIZATION;

EID: 11144285570     PISSN: 09578811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0957881042000266606     Document Type: Article

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