Foreign ownership and total factor productivity

Governance, Multinationals and Growth

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 100-122

  Rao, Someshwar ^a   Tang, Jianmin ^a  

^a INDUSTRY CANADA   (Canada)

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