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

Thomas Farole, Deborah Winkler

The World Bank eBooks · 2014 · 223 citations · 111 references

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Her research focuses on mapping and analyzing global value chains and identifying upgrading opportuni-

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