Article: FDI and economic growth in developing economies: how relevant are host-economy and industry characteristics?(foreign direct investment)

It is surprisingly hard to come by conclusive evidence supporting the widely held view that developing countries should draw on foreign direct investment to spur economic development. Virtually all empirical studies on the subject have found the impact of foreign direct investment on growth to be ambiguous because of the highly aggregated data they have used. These aggregations have blurred the differences between resource-seeking, market-seeking and efficiency-seeking foreign direct investment, and have ignored the compatibility of the different types of foreign direct investment with economic conditions prevailing in individual host economies. Analyzing ...

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