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 …

Focussing on Europe, this paper starts with reviewing the main determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI); a key … observation is that economic policies and non-policy factors contribute equally to the direction of FDI flows. The paper then … examines the growth-FDI nexus: while a strong positive correlation between inward FDI and economic growth exists, at least in …