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The authors review the empirical literature that studies the relationship between foreign direct investment, productivity, and growth using aggregate data, and focus on two questions: (1) is there evidence of a positive relationship between foreign direct investment and national growth? and (2) does the output of the "multinational sectors" exhibit higher labor productivity? The authors also briefly discuss how the microeconomic evidence and a number of aggregation and composition problems might help explain the ambiguous results in this literature.

Variables provide group name (up to three groups), type of terrorist incident (assassination, bombing, facility attack, hijacking, kidnapping, maiming, assault, mass disruption, or arson), incident date (year, month, day of month), region, country, state in the United States (if applicable), city, whether the incident was just outside of the city, the type of target (business, government, police, military, abortion related, airport and airplanes, diplomatic, educational institution, food or water supply, journalists and media, maritime, NGO, private citizens and property, religious figures/ins

This study consists of data on international nongovernmental organization membership for 149 nations in 1966. Data are provided for the number and type of organizations to which each nation belonged.

This dataset contains country level economic and social measures for 183 countries from 1950-1981. World Bank World Development Indicators, from 1960 to present is also available via a web-based service using Beyond 20/20 Web Data Server. This can be accessed from the ESDS International web site and is freely available to users within UK further or higher education via Athens authentication and ESDS online registration Main Topics:

The United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) contains detailed imports and exports statistics reported by statistical authorities of close to 200 countries or areas. It concerns annual trade data from 1962 to the most recent year. UN Comtrade is considered the most comprehensive trade database available with more than 1.1 billion records. A typical record is, for instance, the exports of cars from Germany to the United States in 2004 in terms of value (US dollars), weight and supplementary quantity (number of cars). The database is continuously updated.

The United Nations (UN) Common Database (UNCDB) is a major international databank that draws together hundreds of key human development indicators for all available countries and areas. It contains more than 300 statistical series for over 280 countries and in most cases time series are available from 1970 or 1980.The database contains statistics derived from 30 international data sources produced by organisations such as FAO, UNCTAD, UNSD, WHO, World Bank, UNAIDS and ITU.

Published annually by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC), the International Development (Debt and Aid) Statistics provide up-to-date comparative statistics and information on international development from 1975 onwards, presented in the following key tables: External Debt Statistics (discontinued as of 2004)

The World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI) contain statistical data for over 600 development indicators for over 200 countries and 18 country groups running from 1960 onwards. The extensive collection of development data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources and environmental indicators.

Published monthly since 1948, the International Financial Statistics (IFS) database is the principal statistical publication of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and is the standard source for all aspects of international and domestic finance. The database contains approximately 32,000 time series for over 200 countries and geographical areas.

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Industrial Statistics are presented in three annual databases covering up to 180 countries worldwide. They contain data from 1963 onwards on employment, wages, output, value added, gross fixed capital formation, number of female employees, number of establishments and production level broken down by industrial sector.