Foreign direct investment and the pollution in Five ASEAN nations

International Journal of Economics and Management

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 245-261

  Merican, Yasmine ^a   Yusop, Zulkornain ^a   Mohd Noor, Zaleha ^a   Siong Hook, Law ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

ASEAN; Bounds test; Foreign direct Investment; Neo liberalism; Pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549140785     PISSN: 1823836X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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