Productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment in developing countries: A meta-regression analysis

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 640-655

  Wooster, Rossitza B ^a   Diebel, David S ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Economist ADM Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; META-ANALYSIS; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

EID: 77954809671     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: 14679361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2010.00579.x     Document Type: Article

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