Vertical Foreign Direct Investment versus Outsourcing: A Welfare Comparison from the Perspective of a Host Country

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 293-306

  Goswami, Arti Grover ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; OUTSOURCING; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 79954470185     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: 14679361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2011.00609.x     Document Type: Article

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