This empirical research paper focuses on establishing a relationship between external determinants and economic growth of Pakistan economy. Empirical analyses are carried out with time series econometric techniques using data over the period of 1977-2013. The main finding is that external determinants such as foreign remittances, foreign direct investment, and foreign imports matter from a grow...

investment in oil and gas upstream activities is very important for the exploration and development of oil and gas fields. different and various laws and regulations deal with the investment in upstream operations. by reviewing these various laws and regulations, this research paper tries to discuss to what extent these laws and regulations have created legal confident for foreign investment up...

This paper suggests that the use of investment incentives focusing exclusively on foreign firms, although motivated in some cases from a theoretical point of view, is generally not an efficient way to raise national welfare. The main reason is that the strongest theoretical motive for financial subsidies to inward FDI – spillovers of foreign technology and skills to local industry – is not an a...

Since 21st century, China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) has entered into a stage of fast development. The flow of China’s OFDI kept an increasing momentum and created new records continually even under the circumstances of more complicated external environment and slowdown pace of global economic recovery. As the rapid development of foreign direct investment (FDI), there still exi...

The article considers the impact of foreign direct investment on employment in Viet Nam, a country that received considerable inflows of foreign capital in the 1990s as part of its increased integration with the global economy. Despite the significant share of foreign firms in industrial output and exports, the direct employment generated has been very limited because of the high labour product...

The present paper is concerned with the attractiveness of countries to direct foreign investments, that is, the host country characteristics that attract direct foreign investment (FDI). It focuses on two types of national characteristics— those that attract inflows of all foreign investment (intermediate products), including FDI, that is, mobility factors; and those that influence the modality...

Foreign direct investment has been considered a very important factor in the recent growth of Vietnam’s economy and thus far has drawn a great deal of concern from economic researchers in Vietnam. However, studies on the impacts of foreign direct investment on Vietnam’s economy, especially the technological spillovers, are still very scarce compared with other developing countries. This study m...