1. CONFÉRENCE DES NATIONS UNIES SUR UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE
LE COMMERCE ET LE DÉVELOPPEMENT
ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT
Meeting of Experts on
“FDI, Technology and
Competitiveness”
A conference convened in honour of Sanjaya Lall
UNCTAD, Palais des Nations, Geneva
8-9 March 2007
How Does Investing in Cheap Labour
Countries Affect erformance at Home?
France and Italy
Professors Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Davide Castellani
and Anne-Célia Disdier
This is a draft paper and should not be quoted. The views expressed in this
paper are solely those of the author(s) and do not represent those of the
United Nations, the Uni