Does foreign direct investment promote economic growth? Evidence from a threshold regression analysis

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Wu, Jyun Yi ^a   Hsu, Chih Chiang ^a  

^a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Ghana)

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