Nowadays, Foreign Capital Inflows (FCIs) are considered as a catalyst for economic development and an important source of transferring technology and foreign exchange earnings from developed to developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of FCIs (which include foreign direct investment, personal remittances and official development investment) on economic growth in...

T he importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries has begun to spread very rapidly, especially after the transition of command economies countries into open markets. Many countries see attracting FDI as an important element in their strategy for economic growth because FDI is widely regarded as an amalgamation of capital, technology, marketing, and management...

this paper investigates the key factors affecting the foreign direct investment (fdi) inflow to deve­­loping countries during the period (1995-2010) with emphasis on the financial development. financial development, as an important factor in fdi absorption and a prerequisite for utilizing the benefits of fdi, not only increases the fdi inflow in developing countries, but also improve the absorp...

technology transmission has engaged not only developing countries but also many western research communities. foreign direct investment is a commonly used method to transfer the technology. since specific studies on factors affecting the transmission of technology through foreign direct investment has not been made in nanotechnology, the purpose of this study is to identify the issues affecting...

using firm-level panel data for korean mnes, we make a distinction between being the only affiliate of a parent firm and being the one of the multiple affiliates of a parent firm. comparisons of correlations between purchases and sales of each group of the foreign affiliates show distinctive difference in the motivations of fdi and the multinational activities, due to the difference in the numb...

the foreign direct investment is a growth and development factor. today majority of countries will attract foreign capitals. but multinational companies perform investment in the political stability conditions. the political risk is dissuasive factor for foreign direct investment. in such qualification can suitable “political risk insurance” and help to developing countries for attract foreign ...

This paper empirically assesses United States direct investment in the European Union. In that respect, market size, growth rate, labor costs, export flows and tariff barriers have already been shown to influence U.S. foreign direct investment in the European Union. The present paper enlarges the field of knowledge on the matter by: (i) exploring the impact of two locational determinants of for...

  This is undoubtedly recognized that economic performance for each country over time is related to a great extent to its political, institutional and legal environment. In fact, these institutions and policies are that determine the governance quality.   In a panel data study, we applied newly developed indices to examine the effects of good governance on FDI for fifteen middle-income countri...