Does foreign direct investment increase the productivity of domestic firms? in search of spillovers through backward linkages

American Economic Review

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 605-627

  Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

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EID: 4043067192     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/0002828041464605     Document Type: Review

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