Foreign direct investment and inequality in four ASEAN nations

We tested the impact of foreign direct investment on inequality in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines- significant FDI recipients amongst developing nations from 1970-2001. Our time-series analysis of the estimated gini coefficients, employing the Auto-regressive Distributive Lag...

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Main Authors: Merican, Yasmine, Yusop, Zulkornain, Mohd. Noor, Zaleha, Law, Siong Hook
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2007
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/2577/1/Yasmine_Merican.pdf
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author Merican, Yasmine
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spelling uum-25772011-02-27T02:29:40Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/2577/ Foreign direct investment and inequality in four ASEAN nations Merican, Yasmine Yusop, Zulkornain Mohd. Noor, Zaleha Law, Siong Hook HF Commerce We tested the impact of foreign direct investment on inequality in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines- significant FDI recipients amongst developing nations from 1970-2001. Our time-series analysis of the estimated gini coefficients, employing the Auto-regressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) technique suggest that FDI improves income inequality in Malaysia and Indonesia but worsens inequality in Thailand while it proved insignificant for the Philippines. 2007 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/2577/1/Yasmine_Merican.pdf Merican, Yasmine and Yusop, Zulkornain and Mohd. Noor, Zaleha and Law, Siong Hook (2007) Foreign direct investment and inequality in four ASEAN nations. In: International Economic Conference on Trade and Industry (IECTI) 2007, 3 - 5 December 2007, Bayview Hotel Georgetown, Penang. (Unpublished)
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title Foreign direct investment and inequality in four ASEAN nations
title_full Foreign direct investment and inequality in four ASEAN nations
title_fullStr Foreign direct investment and inequality in four ASEAN nations
title_full_unstemmed Foreign direct investment and inequality in four ASEAN nations
title_short Foreign direct investment and inequality in four ASEAN nations
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