Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/63388 
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Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2007/28
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in small island developing states (SIDS) is an issue that has been neglected until relatively recently. The reasons for this lack of interest are unsurprising, given both the low absolute volume of capital flows involved and the general neglect of issues relating directly to SIDS in the mainstream theoretical and empirical economics literature. For SIDS themselves however, FDI represents an important additional source of investment capital and a potentially critical contributor to growth and development. This paper represents one of the first attempts to analyse the determinants of the inflows of FDI to SIDS. The analysis is undertaken in the context of the existing literature on the determinants of FDI inflows, incorporating insights drawn from recent research on the determinants of growth in small states.
Subjects: 
growth
finance
FDI
JEL: 
O16
R12
E22
ISBN: 
9291909696=978-92-9190-969-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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