Direct Foreign Investment and Firm-level Productivity in the Nigerian Agro/agro-allied Sector

Firm Productivity and Foreign Direct Investment into Non-Core Activities

Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Firm-Level Data in China

Using firm-level census data, this paper examines the spillover effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic firms in the Chinese manufacturing industry between 2000 and 2003. We find that FDI has a significant positive spillover on industry productivity that decreases as the share of FDI in the industry increases. These positive spillovers are more likely to occur through forward lin...

Foreign Direct Investment, Exports and Aggregate Productivity

Empirical evidence confirms that trade exposure can shift resources towards the most efficient firms in an industry and induce substantial increases in aggregate productivity. Although recent studies document that much of world trade is controlled by multinational firms, few examine the effect of foreign direct investment decisions on resource allocation and aggregate productivity. This paper p...

Foreign Direct Investment, Exports & Aggregate Productivity

Empirical evidence confirms that trade exposure can shift resources towards the most efficient firms in an industry and induce substantial increases in aggregate productivity. Although recent studies document that much of world trade is controlled by multinational firms, few examine the effect of foreign direct investment decisions on resource allocation and aggregate productivity. This paper p...

Firm Level Productivity and Exporting in the Uganda’s Manufacturing Sector

The role of exports in helping attain and sustain high rates of growth especially in the context of developing countries cannot be overemphasized. Exports usually tend to be associated with both static gains (resulting for instance from access to larger outside markets) as well as dynamic gains (including learning from exporting and productivity gains). With regard to the dynamic gains from tra...