Aid, governance and private foreign investment: Some puzzling findings for the 1990s

Economic Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 513, 2006, Pages 773-790

  Harms, Philipp ^a   Lutz, Matthias ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DEVELOPMENT AID; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; PRIVATE SECTOR; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 33745938081     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2006.01111.x     Document Type: Article

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