This article examines the relationship between institutional support and regional production linkages, and technological capabilities and firm performance in the garment industry in Laos. The evidence shows that garment firms in Laos have achieved considerable technological upgrading, and that...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been considered as one of the major factors underlying the economic growth experienced by many developing countries. In Malaysia, FDI has played an important role not only in stimulating economic growth, but has also contributed significantly to the growth of...

Economists have argued that public capital is one of the important business stimuli to the performance of private capital expenditure. This argument is considered as the main essence in the theory Public Capital Hypothesis (PCH) that proposed by Aschauer. PCH postulates that a positive...