Foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers: a firm-level analysis of Bangladesh in comparison with Vietnam

Abstract Foreign direct investment (FDI) is expected to generate external effects—usually termed FDI spillovers—for a host country, and these spillovers are thought to have consequences on the productivity of domestic firms. Despite this strong expectation, the empirical findings on FDI spillover ar...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Md Arif-Ur-Rahman, Kazuo Inaba
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-09-01
Series:Journal of Economic Structures
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40008-021-00248-2