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infrastructure is a pre-requisite. In the overlapping generations setting, we show that technology spillovers via FDI take place only … when the host country has the sufficient level of infrastructure. Infrastructure has a subsequent positive feedback on … further investment which leads the country to grow faster. If infrastructure falls short of the critical level, however, then …
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and also conditional on infrastructure. Domestic investment should be taking into account that represents host country …
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We examine the evolution of infrastructure, and the impact of infrastructure investment, in middleincome countries … (MICs). We document how different types of infrastructure stocks, as well as infrastructure investment, vary with the level … provision of infrastructure varies across development stages; there is a focus on basic infrastructure, such as transport, water …
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The study assesses the relevance of infrastructural absorptive capacity in the foreign direct investment (FDI)-growth argument in ECOWAS. Though foreign aid has received a vast attention in the literature, however, an assessment of how the infrastructural readiness of the host economies drives...
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We examine the evolution of infrastructure, and the impact of infrastructure investment, in middle-income countries … (MICs). We document how different types of infrastructure stocks, as well as infrastructure investment, vary with the level … provision of infrastructure varies across development stages; there is a focus on basic infrastructure, such as transport, water …
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) projects are assumed to be accompanied by potential external effects - so-called FDI spillovers - which are supposed to affect productivity levels of other firms in a host country. Empirical results on this topic are inconclusive and most studies focus on one...
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Externalities play a central role in most theories of economic growth. We argue that international externalities, in particular, are essential for explaining a number of empirical regularities about growth and development. Foremost among these is that many countries appear to share a common long...
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) projects are assumed to be accompanied by potential external effects – so-called FDI spillovers – which are supposed to affect productivity levels of other firms in a host country. Empirical results on this topic are inconclusive and most studies focus on one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086728