specialized in the source country. Consequently, FDI investors would make investment, both larger, and of higher quality (namely … the domestic investment and output growth regressions relative to the portfolio equity flow and international loan … coefficients, reflect a more significant role for FDI in the domestic investment process than other types of capital inflows …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is observed to be a predominant form of capital flows to low and middle income … productive investment in the presence of asymmetric information between the managing owners of firms and other portfolio … stakeholders. We emphasize the crucial role played by FDI in sustaining equity-financed capital investment for economies plagued by …

motivates rebel violence? Panel data on political violence in the Philippines distinguish government from rebel attacks, which … we link to private investment across 70 provinces. To formally explore these data we expand an established theory of … asymmetric substate conflict –the “information-centric” model, adding firms, investment, taxation and predation (i …

This paper explores the relationship between investment and political violence through several possible mechanisms …. Investment as a predictor of future violence implies that low private sector investment today provides a robust indicator of high … violence tomorrow. "Rent-capture" or predation asserts that investment increases violence by motivating extortion by insurgents …

technology of private investment. Government policies that discourage saving might make the Schumpeterian vision of a shift from …

investment rates observed in OECD countries. We find that once controlling for general equilibrium effects the saving …

features of the world at present are the low rates of investment and growth in some of the richest countries, whose surpluses … account for about half of the US deficit. The result is that financial capital is flowing out of countries with low investment …