In this paper we distinguish different qualities of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use quot;qualityquot; to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project...

This paper uses new statistical techniques and two new databases to reassess the relationship between economic growth and FDI. After resolving biases plaguing past work, we find that the exogenous component of FDI does not exert a robust, independent influence on growth