The main focus of the paper is the measurement of the potential for externalities related to foreign direct investment. A series of novel proxies are drawn from the Enterprise Survey database of the World Bank-IFC and tested against hypotheses considered in the foreign direct investment literature. Using these proxies, an econometric assessment of the determinants of backward linkages in developing economies is presented. The results show that export-oriented...
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2015/01/01
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS7185
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2015/01/01
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Measuring the determinants of backward linkages from FDI in developing economies : is it a matter of size ?
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foreign owned company