Are the FDI inflow spillover effects on Malaysia's economic growth input driven?

Economic Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1498-1504

  Ahmed, Elsadig Musa ^a  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Economic growth; FDI inflows; Human capital; Input driven; Malaysia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861706576     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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