How Does Foreign Direct Investment Really Affect Developing Countries' Growth?

Review of International Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 396-414

  Herzer, Dierk ^a  

^a HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC GROWTH; EXPORT; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT;

EID: 84859858807     PISSN: 09657576     EISSN: 14679396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9396.2012.01029.x     Document Type: Article

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