Purpose – This paper seeks to assess the importance of time-varying regional patterns to countries' per capita growth rates, and their effect on the conclusions that can be drawn from growth regressions. Design/methodology/approach – Pooled ordinary least squares on a data set of five-year...

Attempts to incorporate the “new forms” of foreign investment into a unified model. Uses this simple model to show how differences in production environment in particular, are likely to affect both the timing and mode(s) that any foreign investment is likely to take. The explanatory...