TY - BOOK ID - 14278847 TI - Making foreign direct investment work for Sub-Saharan Africa : local spillovers and competitiveness in global value chains AU - Farole, Thomas AU - Farole, Thomas. AU - Winkler, Deborah. AU - World Bank. PY - 2014 SN - 1464801266 1464801274 PB - Washington, DC : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic conditions. KW - Investments, Foreign -- Africa, Sub-Saharan. KW - Technology transfer -- Africa, Sub-Saharan. KW - Investments, Foreign KW - Technology transfer KW - Finance KW - Business & Economics KW - Investment & Speculation KW - Africa, Sub-Saharan KW - Economic conditions. KW - Technological transfer KW - Transfer of technology KW - Diffusion of innovations KW - Inventions KW - Research, Industrial KW - Technology and international relations KW - Foreign licensing agreements KW - Technological forecasting KW - Technological innovations KW - Technology KW - International cooperation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14278847 AB - Foreign direct investment (FDI) is becoming increasingly critical to the economies of developing countries, in part due to a major expansion in the scope of global value chains (GVCs), whereby lead firms outsource parts of their production and services activities across complex international networks. While FDI delivers a number of important contributions in terms of investment, employment, and foreign exchange, it is its spillover potential - the productivity gain resulting from the diffusion of knowledge and technology from foreign investors to local firms and workers - that is perhaps the m ER -