This study aims to identify the determinants of FDI from previous literature. It can be concluded that infrastructure have a positive effect on FDI. also conclude trade openness cause escalate. Inflation give negative results Higher inflation may return lower. Hence drops. said there is and link between corruption inflows. Market size positively significantly influence Therefore, government sho...

This study investigates the impact of investment on the economic growth of Pakistan. The data used in this study were collected from the period of 1981 to 2010. Multiple regression technique is used to analyze the relationship between dependent variable (gross domestic production) and independent variables (public investment, private investment and foreign direct investment). It is concluded al...

This paper aims at assessing the nature of foreign direct investment (FDI) in transition countries. We provide an empirical application of the knowledge-capital model of multinationals (MNEs) to an original panel of a¢ liates of MNEs in seven transition countries. We succeed in proving that the strategies of MNEs are heterogeneous by looking at FDI ‡ows by sectors of activity and by source coun...

The name “Foreign Direct Investment” usually brings to mind a significant contribution of FDI to domestic investment. However, there has been a lot of skepticism concerning the contribution of inward FDI to domestic investment. As noted by Froot (1993), FDI (the purchase by a domestic resident of a controlling stake in a foreign company) actually requires neither capital flows nor investment in...

Investment is a major determinant of economic growth, both in reference to the level of the capital stock and its productivity, but has been deficient in poor developing countries. A particular concern for poor countries has been relatively low levels of foreign direct investment (FDI), and a low impact of such investment on growth. The paper focuses on sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries and o...

mining and metallurgical projects are among those that require the most sizeable invest-ments undertaken in iran. one target of the current development plan and the ministry of mines and industries has been to attract foreign investment in mining projects. a survey of world-class mining companies was conducted to determine their expectations and in order to recommend a frame work for iran aimed...

Submitted: May 12, 2013; Accepted: Jun 24, 2013; Published: Sep 15, 2013 Abstract: The paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on Growth (GDP) for Pakistan. It studies a long run relationship between the foreign direct investment and gross domestic investment in Pakistan. By using cointegration analysis, we demonstrate that there exists a long run relationship between the two...

a r t i c l e i n f o How does outward foreign direct investment (FDI) affect employment growth of the multinational corporations (MNCs) in the home country? Does the impact of outward investment differ by the level of development of the destination country of the FDI? Using a difference-indifference approach, we assess the impact of starting to invest in less-advanced countries compared with i...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has dramatically increased worldwide and is the most important form of all private capital flows to developing countries. Yet, it is an important empirical question whether FDI affects total factor productivity (TFP) positively. We investigate the effect of FDI on TFP growth in a large sample of countries in 1970–2000. Our econometric results indicate that FDI ha...

Recent theoretical work suggests that firm heterogeneity has an impact on the international investment decisions of multinational firms. This paper provides evidence foreign direct investment (FDI) at different levels of aggregation. We use a novel firm-level dataset on the FDI stocks of German firms to assess level and role of heterogeneity. Our data cover the years 1990-2000. We provide evide...