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Foreign direct investment (FDI) is regarded as one of the main features of globalization and has received growing attention since the early 1990s.
This paper is based on a longer study prepared for the „Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgruppe für weltkirchliche Aufgaben der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz“ [Krüger (2004)].
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Hemmer, HR., Krüger, R., Seith, J. (2005). Foreign Direct Investment and Income Inequality revisited. In: El-Shagi, M., Rübel, G. (eds) Aspekte der internationalen Ökonomie / Aspects of International Economics. Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-82092-1_7
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