Making Foreign Direct Investment Work for Sub-Saharan Africa : Local Spillovers and Competitiveness in Global Value Chains

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is becoming increasingly critical to the economies of developing countries, in part due to a major expansion in the scope of global value chains (GVCs), whereby lead firms outsource parts of their production and services activities across complex international network...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Farole, Thomas, Winkler, Deborah
Format: Publication
Language:en_US
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2013
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16390