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

by Thomas Farole and Deborah Winkler

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 networks. FDI delivers important contributions including investment, employment, and foreign exchange. However, it is FDI's spillover potential--the productivity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464801266
• ISBN13: 9781464801266
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"