The relationship among foreign direct investment, multinationals, inequality and growth is a vexing one that has occupied considerable scholarly and practical attention for many decades. To date, international business scholars have not fully concerned themselves with this issue (Buckley, Doh and Benischke, 2017, for an exception). This paper aims to briefly review this literature and report some of the insights of this work. The author draws from and integrates this literature, concluding that multinationals and the foreign investment that emanate from them have a generally positive impact on growth and a generally negative impact on income and wealth equality. The author then details some of the potential contributions MNEs can make to attenuate the negative relationship of foreign direct investment (FDI) on equality, concluding that governments and their policies are the primary vehicle for addressing wealth and income inequality.,This paper is an essay.,The relationship between inequality, growth and FDI is complex. On balance, FDI contributes to growth but may exacerbate inequality under some conditions. More research needs to be conducted, and policymakers need to carefully consider these nuanced relationships.,The paper provides review of the relationship of FDI, growth and inequality.

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跨国公司，外国直接投资，不平等与增长

外国直接投资，跨国公司，不平等与增长之间的关系是一个令人困扰的关系，几十年来一直在学术和实践上引起了广泛关注。迄今为止，国际商务学者尚未完全关注此问题（Buckley，Doh和Benischke，2017年为例外）。本文旨在简要回顾该文献并报告这项工作的一些见解。作者借鉴并整合了这些文献，得出结论认为，跨国公司和由此产生的外国投资通常对增长产生积极影响，而对收入和财富平等产生总体消极影响。然后，作者详细介绍了跨国公司可以为减轻外国直接投资（FDI）对平等的负面关系做出的一些潜在贡献，结论是政府及其政策是解决财富和收入不平等的主要手段。本文是一篇论文。不平等，增长与外国直接投资之间的关系很复杂。总的来说，外国直接投资有助于增长，但在某些情况下可能加剧不平等。需要进行更多的研究，决策者需要仔细考虑这些细微的关系。本文回顾了外国直接投资，增长和不平等之间的关系。