Making foreign direct investment work for Sub-Saharan Africa : local spillovers and competitiveness in global value chains / / Thomas Farole and Deborah Winkler, editors

• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC : , : The World Bank, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 332.673096
• Soggetto topico: Investments, Foreign - Africa, Sub-Saharan; Technology transfer - Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Soggetto geografico: Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.: 9910464522203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). . -Trade.