actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …

This paper calculates Theil’s entropy index to measure the extent of productivity differences across 92 countries for … the period from 1970 to 2003. While there is evidence of increasing differences in productivity across these countries, we …. The results of our multivariate time series analysis also suggest that FDI increases productivity differences among low …

productivity of domestic firms (high-productivity firms) is close enough to the world productivity frontier, they will incur the … distant from the world productivity frontier will perform worse owing to the entry of foreign firms, thus leading to the … foreign firms, the impact of spillover effect of inward FDI is contingent upon the productivity gap between the domestic firms …