Intra- and Inter-industry Externalities from Foreign Direct Investment in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector: New Evidence from Mexican Regions

World Development

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2838-2854

  Jordaan, Jacob A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

externalities; FDI; geographic concentration; Latin America; maquiladora; Mexico; technology gap

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; MANUFACTURING; MAQUILADORA; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TRADE LIBERALIZATION;

LATIN AMERICA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 55949093991     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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