of foreign direct investment (FDI), considering that the latter is an international technology diffusion channel …. Although FDI appears to be an important channel in the diffusion of technology models theoretically, empirical evidence related … to the effect of FDI on growth is ambiguous. By applying the approach of Ben-David (1996), which focuses on convergence …

foreign direct investment (FDI). This paper will then use insights from the new literature on economic growth to develop …: FDI, R&D links, trade in goods, inbound tourism, education exports, and people linkages. To account for the growing role …

This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in a sample of 10 ex …-socialist European and Asian countries. While the link between FDI and economic growth has been extensively investigated in empirical … literature, this paper contributes to this literature by econometrically investigating the effects of FDI inflows in specific …

and sectoral foreign direct investment (FDI) on Egypt's economic growth. We distinguish between FDI in the manufacturing … FDI on Egypt's economic growth. Employing General Methods of Moments (GMM) panel estimations, we find that neither … aggregate nor sectoral FDI has an unconditional effect on economic growth. We also reject human capital as a channel of …

different time spans within the 1998-2013 period. The empirical results show that total FDI contributes positively to the growth … in the analyzed countries. With regards to our main focus, the analysis of the decomposition of FDI finds that FDI in the … industrial and services sectors has a positive and significant effect on economic growth, whereas FDI in the construction sector …

optimal development policy requires FDI to be matched by investment into the absorptive capacity. …