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    The direct and indirect impact of foreign direct investment on productivity growth in Indian manufacturing

    Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, 2002
    It is claimed that FDI augments investible resources and improves technological standards, efficiency, and competitiveness of domestic industry, but is this true irrespective of the source of the FDI and prevailing economic conditions?
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    Foreign direct investment in Southern Africa: determinants, characteristics and implications for economic growth and poverty alleviation

    Gapresearch.org, IDS, 2002
    This paper presents the findings of a study analyzing the major factors determining the form and volume of private foreign direct investment in Southern Africa. This study aims to ascertain (i) what are the primary motivations for investment in Southern Africa and (ii) whether the form of new foreign investment influences its developmental effects.
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    Aid and growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: accounting for transmission mechanisms

    Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 2006
    This revised paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive empirical literature in this area, existing studies have not addressed directly the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth.
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    Foreign direct investment: a lead driver for sustainable development?

    Stakeholder Forum, 2001
    In consideration of a number of advantages and disadvantages of Foreign Direct Investment, and analysis of regional trends, the author considers the "role and responsibilities of institutions in order to utilise FDI in a more effective manner".
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    Some new evidence on determinants of foreign direct investment in developing countries

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    An export orientation is the strongest variable explaining why a country attracts foreign direct investment.Singh and Jun expand on earlier studies of the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) by empirically analyzing various factors --- including political risk, business conditions, and macroeconomic variables --- that influence direct investment flows to developing countries.They
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    Intra-Industry Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and the Reorientation of Eastern European Exports

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    To what extent does growth in exports in Central and Eastern Europe reflect economic restructuring and changes in the composition of trade as opposed to "redirection" of traditional CMEA exports to the West?In the first half of the 1990s, after the demise of central planning, exports to OECD countries from many Central and Eastern European countries grew rapidly.
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    The effects of trade and foreign direct investment on employment and relative wages

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
    Recent developments in the international economy have given rise to concern about the effects of international trade and foreign direct investment on domestic employment and wages.
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    The FDI-led growth hypothesis: further econometric evidence from China

    National Centre for Development Studies, Australia, 1997
    Despite a large volume of econometric literature on the impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in developing countries, the question of causality linkage between them has only been investigated very recently.
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    Foreign direct investment in Africa: Performance and Potential

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 1999
    African countries have made considerable efforts over the past decade to improve their investment climate. They have liberalized their investment regulations and have offered incentives to foreign investors. More importantly, the economic performance of the region had substantially improved from the mid-1990s. However, the expected surge of FDI into Africa as a whole has not occurred.
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    Sources of growth in South Asian economies

    Global Development Network, 2000
    This paper extracts insights from cross-country analysis about the performance of individual South Asian countries and the region as a whole.

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