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 ...

T he impact of FDI on economic growth is neither homogeneous, nor completely clarified. Due to accumulation of capital in the host economy, FDI is expected to encourage the incorporation of new inputs and technologies in the process of production. However, the impact of FDI on economic growth is not so shaped up in empirical studies. Accordingly, while some studies remarked a positiv...

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 (fdi) plays a crucial role in the economic literature, especially in developing countries. it is also an important factor for policy makers to analyze the relation between foreign direct investment and other important economic variables. one of these variables is export which is always mentioned in iran's economic development programs. in this study, the relation betwe...

Although it may seem natural to argue that foreign direct investment (FDI) can convey great advantages to host countries, this paper shows that the benefits of FDI vary greatly across sectors by examining the effect of foreign direct investment on growth in the primary, manufacturing, and services sectors. An empirical analysis using cross-country data for the period 1981-1999 suggests that tot...

This article analyzes the location determinants of foreign direct investment in services, both theoretically and empirically. It hypothesizes four sets of factors as the location determinants of FDI in services based on the standard theory of FDI. The generalized investment theory on China’s foreign direct investment is tested empirically utilizing panel data for 17 provinces and cities from 20...

foreign direct investmentplays a crucial role in the economy of developing countries like bangladesh through accelerating gross domestic product (gdp), export and domestic investment followed by overall economic growth. the present scenario of fdi in bangladesh in not still satisfactory enough but given the availability of abundant resources, skilled and cheap labor forces, a stable political a...

With the initiation of globalization, developing countries, particularly those in Asia, have been witnessing a immense surge of FDI inflows during the past two decades. Even though India has been a latecomer to the FDI scene compared to other East Asian countries, its considerable market potential and a liberalized policy regime has sustained its attraction as a favourable destination for forei...

T he purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of foreign direct investment and portfolio investment on the convergence occurrence of economic growth of countries in the ASEAN + 3 region and to determine the time or speed required to achieve convergence. The type of data used in this research is secondary data panel which is combination between time series data and cross-section...