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Patterns of international capital flows and productivity growth : new evidence

MacDonald, Margaux - 2015

puzzle. An analysis of the components of capital flows and of gross portfolio positions shows that foreign direct investment … is directed towards countries with the highest growth rates, but that portfolio investment outflows exceed these inflows …

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An FDI is an FDI is an FDI? : the growth effects of greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions in developing countries

Harms, Philipp; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2011 - This version: November 15, 2011

We explore the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between … mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") and "greenfield" investment. A simple model captures the key difference between the two … types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly represent a rent accruing to previous owners, and do not necessarily …

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FDI and Growth : What Cross-Country Industry Data Say

Cipollina, Maria - 2012

investment in capital intensive and technologically advanced sectors is at the heart of the debate …

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FDI and Growth : What Cross-Country Industry Data Say

Cipollina, Maria - 2011

countries, where the growth enhancing promotion of foreign investment in capital intensive and technologically advanced sectors …

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FDI and Growth : What Cross-Country Industry Data Say

Cipollina, Maria; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Pietrovito, Filomena - 2011

countries, where the growth enhancing promotion of foreign investment in capital intensive and technologically advanced sectors …

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Capital flow types, external financing needs, and industrial growth: 99 countries, 1991-2007

Aizenman, Joshua; Sushko, Vladyslav - 2011

We examine the differential impact of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI inflows on 37 manufacturing industries, 99 countries, 1991-2007, extending Rajan-Zingales (1998). We utilize external finance dependence measures in a series of cross-sectional regressions of manufacturing...

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Remittances, financial development and economic growth in the economic community of West African states

Titoe, Michael D. <Jr.> - In: West African journal of monetary and economic integration 19 (2019) 2, pp. 71-83

There are varied findings on how the remittances, financial development and economic growth relationship works. Some studies find that in countries with low financial development, remittance inflows may have a higher impact on economic growth by serving as a substitute for inefficient or...

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