than would be suggested by official balance of payments statistics. This paper identifies the determinants of FDI …

The substantial increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) in recent years has triggered a discussion of a uniform …

This paper examines how capital controls affect FDI decisions and how the impact of these restrictive measures varies … with different levels of country risk. We construct a model of firms'' FDI decisions, broadly in Dunning''s ""eclectic … life-span of FDI investments at each level of country risk and foreign investors'' willingness towards risk sharing …

development: (i) that economic takeoff is associated with technological transfer through foreign direct investment (FDI); and (ii …) that takeoff is accompanied, at least in the short term, by widening income inequality. The results indicate that FDI flows … have increased the rate of convergence in per capita incomes across China’s provinces. However, the pattern of FDI, which …

Africa lags behind other regions in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). In some circumstances, there are … obvious explanations for the absence of FDI, such as a high incidence of war. In this paper, we examine the role that monetary …

of volumes and composition. China''s inflows have generally been dominated by foreign direct investment (FDI), a pattern … attributable to non-FDI capital inflows, rather than current account surpluses or FDI …

This paper examines different explanations-initial conditions, openness to trade and FDI, and institutions-of the … Mauritian growth experience since the mid-1970s. We show that arguments based on openness to trade and FDI are either misleading …