PEDL Synthesis Paper No. 3: Eight Things Development Professionals Should Know about Foreign Direct Investment
II. Multinational firms transfer knowledge to their overseas operations
III. Foreign affiliates benefit from continuous injections of knowledge from headquarters
IV. Productivity spillovers associated with FDI mostly benefit the supplying industries
V. FDI inflows facilitate integration into GVCs and affect the composition and the quality of exports
VI. Foreign affiliates tend to create good jobs
VII. FDI inflows may help improve environmental performance
VIII. Investment promotion works
IX. Conclusion
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