On the Role of Absorptive Capacity: FDI Matters to Growth
Kinoshita, Yuko; Lu, Chia-Hui
2006-11-01
Abstract
The paper studies the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth when sufficient provisions of infrastructure is a pre-requisite. In the overlapping generations setting, we show that technology spillovers via FDI take place only when the host country has the sufficient level of infrastructure. Infrastructure has a subsequent positive feedback on further investment which leads the country to grow faster. If infrastructure falls short of the critical level, however, then FDI has little effect on growth as the country is trapped in a low growth equilibrium. We also present the simulations and empirical results based on panel data for 42 developing countries between 1970 and 2000. They support the model that FDI and infrastructure are complementary in affecting per capita GDP growth.Other Identifiers
RePEc:wdi:papers:2006-845
Series/Report no.
845
Subjects
Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Growth, Technology Diffusion, Infrastructure
Types
Working Paper
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