T his study examines the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and employment in the Indonesia construction service sector. The method used in this study is Panel VECM Granger. The data used are the data of FDI inflow and employment in the construction sector in some provinces, namely North Sumatra, Riau, Jakarta, West Java, East Java, and...

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This paper examines whether policies to promote foreign direct investment (FDI) make economic sense. The discussion focuses on whether existing academic research suggests that the benefits of FDI are sufficient to justify the kind of policy interventions seen in practice. For small open economies, efficient taxation of foreign and domestic capital depends on their relative mobility. If foreign ...

Abstract This article investigates how regional supply chains support the Western Balkans’ economic growth. It first identifies role of cefta free trade agreement in expanding size local market and opening up trading opportunities. recounts larger specific industrial policies have attracted foreign direct investment ( fdi ) to region recent years. analyses these two factors combined generate ex...

The purpose of this research is to evaluate economic situation of Kazakhstan’s market and its attraction to Foreign Direct Investors, to provide clear view of potential that Kazakhstan economy has and the prospective of further development of the area of the economy and the future of this country. The country of Kazakhstan is one of the largest world energy markets due to its considerable reser...

In this paper, we address the question that does FDI alone affect economic growth or interaction of FDI and human capital is required to boost economic growth. We develop the model with an expanding variety of products. We estimate the model using some advanced tests utilizing data on FDI flows from developed countries. We find stronger complementary effects between FDI and human capital on the...