Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms : In Search of Spillovers through Backward Linkages

Many countries compete against one another in attracting foreign investors by offering ever more generous incentive packages and justifying their actions with the productivity gains that are expected to accrue to domestic producers from knowledge e...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Javorcik, Beata
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/10/2054540/foreign-direct-investment-increase-productivity-domestic-firms-search-spillovers-through-backward-linkages
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19210