FDI and growth: What causes what?

World Economy

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 9-19

  Chowdhury, Abdur ^a   Mavrotas, George ^b  

^a United Nations Economic Commission for Europe   (Switzerland)

^b UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT;

ASIA; CHILE; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

EID: 33645933281     PISSN: 03785920     EISSN: 14679701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2006.00755.x     Document Type: Article

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