Ireland is the most successful EU economy in attracting export-platform foreign direct investment (FDI), and the … increased FDI inflows of the 1990s are widely agreed to have been one of the most important factors in generating the remarkable … FDI-attracting low-corporation-tax regime. …

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 …