Is Foreign Aid a Vanguard of Foreign Direct Investment? A Gravity-Equation Approach

World Development

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 482-497

  Kimura, Hidemi ^a   Todo, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a Ministry of Finance   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

foreign aid; foreign direct investment; gravity equation

Indexed keywords

AID FLOW; CAPITAL FLOW; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EQUATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INTERNATIONAL AID;

JAPAN;

EID: 77049119922     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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