Revisiting economic geography and foreign direct investment in less developed regions

Size, Geography, and Foreign Direct Investment∗

This paper analyzes the cross-country distribution and volume of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), its barriers, and its impact on welfare. From the observed patterns of FDI, three facts stand out: a very small fraction of countries engages in FDI; geography remains a significant impediment to FDI; countries’ size is important in determining the existence and volume of bilateral FDI. I present a...

Foreign direct investment and economic development

Although transnational corporations play the crucial role as transplanters of technology, skills and access to the world market, how they facilitate structural upgrading and economic growth in developing countries has not been adequately conceptualized in terms of a theory of economic development. This article develops a dynamic paradigm o TNC-assisted development by recognizing five key struct...

Foreign direct investment and economic integration

Foreign Direct Investment , Openness and Economic Growth :

This paper examines the relationship between foreign direct investment, openness and economic growth in Sudan during the period 1972-2011 using Granger causality and Johansen co-integration techniques to analyze the relationship and direction of causality between the variables. The study used autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration analysis proposed by Pesaran and Shin (...

Does Foreign Direct Investment Enhance Economic Growth: Insight from Bangladesh

This study deals with foreign direct investment and its impact on economic growth in the context of Bangladesh. The main objective of our study is to evaluate the impact of FDI on the economy of Bangladesh based on the secondary data covering year 2013-2017. This study considers FDI as a dependent variable and GDP, export and investment as independent variables and is used as the indicators of ...