Home government policies for outward FDI from emerging economies: lessons from Asia

International Journal of Emerging Markets

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 333-357

  Rasiah, Rajah ^a   Gammeltoft, Peter ^b   Jiang, Yang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Emerging markets; Government policy; International investments; South Asia; South East Asia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986059460     PISSN: 17468809     EISSN: 17468817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17468801011058415     Document Type: Article

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