This paper focuses on two major aspects of globalization: international trade and FDI and their impacts on manufacturing employment in Iran and study whether foreign direct investment and trade expansion with Asian and European partner played any role in shaping the Iranian manufacturing employment structure. This study incorporates globalization (KOF index), trade integration and FDI into a si...

How do foreign trade and foreign direct investment affect regional inequality? Foreign trade and investment may affect internal economic geography, and the resulting industry agglomeration may contribute to regional inequality. This paper provides empirical evidence supporting this linkage. The results indicate that the increasing regional inequality in China has been accompanied by an increase...

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...

This study examines the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) on growth, making a comparison between selected countries of Africa and Asia. We utilized data for 30 countries 2009. The Hausman among OLS, fixed effect and random effect models. First, aggregate data and later disaggregated the data in assess the regional impact of FDI on ec that FDI has positive relationship with GDP growth also...

This paper estimates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on capital accumulation, and output and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the recipient economy. Time series and panel data evidence are provided for a sample of OECD and non-OECD countries in the period 1970±90. Although FDI is expected to boost long-run growth in the recipient economy via technological upgrading and kn...

As an increasingly large link between China and the rest of the world, as well as a key component of economic policy, foreign direct investment (FDI) is an investment made by a party in one country in business interests in another country. It represents the influx of both capitalism and globalism in China. This paper investigates the link between FDI and regime stability by examining how FDI ha...

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...

Although there is evidence that CO2-efficiency enhancing innovations in one country diffuse into other countries to contribute to the goals of climate change mitigation, very little is known about the conditions under which such international spillovers are most likely to take place. Our contribution in the present article seeks to address this gap by examining whether the strength of cross-bor...

Uzbekistan’s economy has been enjoying a progressive economic growth thanks to diversified export structure, attracted foreign direct investment (FDI), more sophisticated industries and open economic policy. Impact of inward FDI and export has become more significant due to their rapid shift and extension across all industries. This article examines the impact of FDI based firms on economic gro...

This paper provides new evidence on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the productivity of domestic firms. Using a specially designed survey on a sample of over 7,500 manufacturing firms in Vietnam we uncover some of the mechanisms that explain productivity spillovers from FDI through vertical linkages along the supply chain. Our results suggest that domestic firms exp...