The local sourcing of intermediate products is one the main channels for foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers …

The local sourcing of intermediate products is one the main channels for foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers …

Could foreign direct investment (FDI) contribute to improving developing countries' participation in global value … chains (GVC)? This is the main issue addressed in this paper. Indeed, FDI seems to be, at least theoretically, a mean to … value of the investment is a more significant indicator than the share of FDI in GDP in developing countries. The more FDI …

-constructed dataset we find a positive association between bilateral FDI stock and both gross bilateral trade and the bilateral import … global perspective stand out both in terms of degree of global value chain-participation and size of inward FDI stock …

investment (FDI). This is also the case in Lesotho, which developed into the largest Sub-Sahara African (SSA) apparel exporter to … by different types of FDI firms, affiliates of largely Taiwanese transnational producers and of South African …