Openness, investment climate, and FDI in developing countries

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 607-620

  Sekkat, Khalid ^a   Veganzones Varoudakis, Marie Ange ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INFRASTRUCTURE; MANUFACTURING;

AFRICA; ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 35448992570     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: 14679361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2007.00426.x     Document Type: Article

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