FDI and regional development policy

Fdi, Fiscal Incentives and the Role of Development Policy

The last two decades of the 20 century have seen major shifts in the size of cross-border capital flows (see figure 1.). FDI flows to developing countries and economies in transition have proved to be the source of economic growth. FDI inward increased from 50,1 billions of dollars annual average in 1985-95 to 199 billions in 1998 and 207 billions in 1999. In same time, FDI inward stocks increa...

strategic coalition policy making for regional development

strategic coalition is a model for regional development and new regionalism. in this process, multinational corporation has basic role for economic partnership with national and regional countries. this trend have been for in formed free trade association situation. regional organizations and frameworks can help determine the perceived regional and global development. global framework activitie...

Southern African Development Community Regional Agricultural Policy

FDI, Productivity and Financial Development

This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on growth by focusing on the complementarities between FDI inflows and financial markets. In our earlier work, we found that FDI is beneficial for growth only if the host country has well-developed financial institutions. In this paper, we investigate whether this effect operates through factor accumulation and/or improvements in...

FDI and Development : Policy and Research Issues in the Emerging Context

This paper is a general review of the emerging policy and research issues in the current context of rapid technological change and policy liberalization. It deals with the benefits and costs of FDI to development and the market failures that affect their impact on developing host countries. It focuses on the impact of FDI on local enterprise development, static versus dynamic benefits and barga...