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Foreign direct investment, corruption and democracy

Aparna Mathur Department of Economics, American Enterprise Institute, 1150 Seventeenth Street, NW, Washington 20036, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Kartikeya Singh PricewaterhouseCoopers, 1800 Tysons Blvd, Mclean, VA 22102, USA
Pages 991-1002 | Published online: 03 Nov 2011

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