A Dynamic Investigation of Foreign Direct Investment and Poverty Reduction in Mauritius

Foreign Direct Investment and Poverty in Latin America

Most Latin American countries crafted market-friendly reforms during the 1990s. In particular, the political discourse often stressed the attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) as a key component of the quest for development and particularly the fight against poverty. However, the precise link between FDI and poverty has been neglected by the literature, at least by that with an empirica...

Foreign Direct Investment : Not the Cure - All for Poverty

Localized spillovers and foreign direct investment: a dynamic analysis

It has been empirically shown that ̄rms invest in foreign countries also with the aim to absorb technological knowledge. However, the recent literature on technological innovation and foreign expansion has not fully taken into account these features of foreign direct investment. Introducing this new element into the analysis implies assuming that multinationals and exporters operate with di®ere...

Foreign Direct Investment, Agglomerations and Demonstration Effects: An Empirical Investigation

Foreign Direct Investment, Agglomerations and Demonstration Effects: An Empirical Investigation* Many previous studies have shown that the localization of firms can be an important factor in attracting new foreign direct investment into a host country. What has been missing in this literature thus far, however, is an investigation into the reasons why industry clusters attract firms. We disting...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...