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Foreign direct investment (FDI) is generally regarded as a driving force for integrating developing countries into the globalization process that characterizes the world economy, and the capacity to attract growing FDI inflows is often taken as a key indicator of success in their development record.

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Chudnovsky, D. (2000). MNEs, Globalization and Economic Development: The Case of Argentina in the 1990s. In: Hood, N., Young, S. (eds) The Globalization of Multinational Enterprise Activity and Economic Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599161_8

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