markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through backward linkages, shedding light on this … financial markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration … growth rates that are almost twice those of economies with poor financial markets, b) increases in the share of FDI or the …

markets in enabling foreign direct investment (FDI) to promote growth through backward linkages, shedding light on this … financial markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration … growth rates that are almost twice those of economies with poor financial markets, b) increases in the share of FDI or the …

economic activity, this paper discusses the scope for FDI as an instrument of regional policy aimed at offsetting the … centripetal forces unleashed by liberalisation. Focusing on Sweden, the paper finds no signs that FDI has contributed to reducing … - including support for FDI - have not performed better in terms of employment, labour productivity, and education levels than …