Hoda Abdelmoneim Hassaballa <br/><br/>
Environment and foreign direct investment :   An empirical investigation /  
 البيئة والإستثمار الأجنبى المباشر :   دراسة قياسية 
Hoda Abdelmoneim Hassaballa ; Supervised Alaa Elshazly 
 - Cairo :   Hoda Abdelmoneim Hassaballa ,   2011 
 - 170 P. :   charts ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Economics and Political Science -  Department of Economics 
<br/><br/> There is a two - way relationship between foreign direct investment ( FDI ) and environment that may have negative or positive effects on welfare . FDI may have negative effects welfare through its effect on the environment . This happens when developed countries direct their polluting FDI outflows to developing countries where there are loose environmental laws, causing nore pollution in developing countries 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Dynamic panel data model  Foreign direct investment  Pollution