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Autore: | Farole Thomas |
Titolo: | Making foreign direct investment work for Sub-Saharan Africa : local spillovers and competitiveness in global value chains / / Thomas Farole and Deborah Winkler |
Pubblicazione: | Washington, DC : , : The World Bank, , 2014 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
Disciplina: | 332.673096 |
Soggetto topico: | Investments, Foreign - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
Technology transfer - Africa, Sub-Saharan | |
Soggetto geografico: | Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic conditions |
Altri autori: | FaroleThomas WinklerDeborah |
Note generali: | "This study was prepared by Thomas Farole (Senior Economist, World Bank- PRMTR) and Deborah Winkler (Consultant Economist, World Bank- PRMTR) along with a team including: Cornelia Staritz (Vienna University and Austrian Research Foundation for International Development); Stacey Frederick (Duke University Center on Globalization, Governance, & Competitiveness); Rupert Barnard, Michelle de Bruyn, Philippa McLaren, and Nick Kempson (Kaiser Associates Economic Development)." |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Context, objectives, and methodology -- Conceptual framework -- The role of mediating factors for FDI spillovers in developing countries : Evidence from a global dataset -- Determining the nature and extent of spillovers : Empirical assessment -- Sector case study : mining -- Sector case study : agribusiness -- Sector case study : apparel -- Summary of main conclusions -- Policy implications. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Foreign direct investment (FDI) is becoming increasingly critical to the economies of developing countries, in part due to a major expansion in the scope of global value chains (GVCs), whereby lead firms outsource parts of their production and services activities across complex international networks. While FDI delivers a number of important contributions in terms of investment, employment, and foreign exchange, it is its spillover potential - the productivity gain resulting from the diffusion of knowledge and technology from foreign investors to local firms and workers - that is perhaps the m |
Titolo autorizzato: | Making foreign direct investment work for Sub-Saharan Africa |
ISBN: | 1-4648-0127-4 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910813699803321 |
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