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Book Some New Evidence on Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries

Download or read book Some New Evidence on Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries written by Harinder Singh and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Some New Evidence on Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries

Download or read book Some New Evidence on Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries written by Harinder Singh and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: November 1995 An export orientation is the strongest variable explaining why a country attracts foreign direct investment. Singh and Jun expand on earlier studies of the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) by empirically analyzing various factors -- including political risk, business conditions, and macroeconomic variables -- that influence direct investment flows to developing countries. They try to fill a gap in the literature by examining qualitative factors. Using a pooled model of developing countries, they test three groups of hypotheses on what influences direct investment -- that political risk matters, that business conditions matter, that macroeconomic variables matter. Tests of the first hypothesis indicate that a qualitative index of political risk is a significant determinant of FDI flows for countries that have historically attracted high FDI flows. For countries that have not attracted such flows, sociopolitical instability (proxied by work hours lost in industrial disputes) has a negative impact on investment flows. Tests of the second hypothesis show that a general qualitative index of business operation conditions is an important determinant of FDI in countries that receive high flows. This country group also shows a positive relationship between taxes on international transactions and FDI flows -- supporting the tariff hopping hypothesis. Results from tests of the third hypothesis reveal that exports generally, especially manufacturing exports, are a significant determinant of FDI flows for countries in which FDI is high. This hypothesis is supported by standard regression analysis and by Granger causality tests, which indicate that the feedback is predominantly from exports to FDI. Export orientation is the strongest variable for explaining why a country attracts FDI. This finding is in line with the secular trend toward increasing complementarity between trade and FDI. This paper -- a product of the International Finance Division, International Economics Department -- is part of a larger effort in the department to analyze private capital flows and their policy implications for developing countries.

Book International Comparisons of Educational Attainment

Download or read book International Comparisons of Educational Attainment written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Countries

Download or read book Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Countries written by Andung A. Nitimihardja and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An econometric analysis of the determinants of foreign direct investment in developed and developing countries

Download or read book An econometric analysis of the determinants of foreign direct investment in developed and developing countries written by Amine El Kiassi and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 2,0, University of Exeter, language: English, abstract: Abstract The objective of this study is to explore, through a cross-sectional econometric model, the factors of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in developed and developing countries over two periods 2005-2006. This work is based on cross-sectional data of 57 countries. In the model, FDI is dependent variable. Independent variables are per capita income, inflation rate, openness, per capita income growth rate, unemployment rate and dummy. According to the econometric results, in the main model, per capita income has positive sign and statistically significant. Inflation rate and unemployment rate present negative sign and are insignificant. Per capita income growth rate and openness have positive sign and both are not significant. Table of Contents Introduction 4 Literature Review 4 Theoretical Model 6 Data Collection .7 Methodology 7 Data Analysis and Interpretation 9 Conclusions and Recommendations 14 References 15 Bibliography 16 Appendix ......................................................................................................17

Book Foreign Direct Investment  A Review of the Determinants and Economic Effects

Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment A Review of the Determinants and Economic Effects written by Antonia Haberger and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1,3, LMU Munich (Institut für marktorientierte Unternehmensführung), language: English, abstract: Both the drivers and effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) are complex and multifaceted. This thesis provides a conceptual overview of a selection of the most frequently considered drivers and economic effects of FDI in literature. The overview aims to support host countries in providing targeted incentives to attract FDI by raising the awareness of controllable drivers. Drivers for selecting a specific host country are presented hierarchically according to their controllability by the host country. The governance infrastructure as a driver, for instance, is easier to control by the target country than market characteristics, cultural distance, or resource endowments. This thesis discusses the drivers according to their decreasing controllability, starting with political factors, followed by economic, social, and cultural, as well as geographical factors. The reasons why these factors may attract FDI are outlined in the respective subsections. Moreover, this overview presents the economic effects of FDI on the host country. These effects include increased competition or spillover effects from foreign to local companies. The composition of direct and indirect effects leads to the conclusion that all these effects impact economic growth, which represents both a driver and an effect of FDI simultaneously. Thus, this thesis refers to the dependencies between drivers and effects with their interrelated factor economic growth. Further, it is argued that the effects of FDI are significantly interdependent among each other. Therefore, the realization of specific effects, such as economic growth, strongly depends on conditions and specific characteristics, such as the particular threshold level of human capital in the host country.

Book On the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Countries

Download or read book On the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Countries written by Elizabeth Asiedu and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper explores whether factors that affect Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in developing countries affect countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) differently. The results indicate that: (i) A higher return on investment and better infrastructure have a positive impact on FDI to non-SSA countries, but have no significant impact on FDI to SSA; (ii) Openness to trade promotes FDI to SSA and non-SSA countries, however, the marginal benefit from increased openness is less for SSA. These results imply that Africa is different - suggesting that policies that have been successful in other regions may not be equally successful in Africa.

Book Foreign Direct Investment in South Asia

Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment in South Asia written by Pravakar Sahoo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1990s, the governments of South Asian countries acted as ‘facilitators’ to attract FDI. As a result, the inflow of FDI increased. However, to become an attractive FDI destination as China, Singapore, or Brazil, South Asia has to improve the local conditions of doing business. This book, based on research that blends theory, empirical evidence, and policy, asks and attempts to answer a few core questions relevant to FDI policy in South Asian countries: Which major reforms have succeeded? What are the factors that influence FDI inflows? What has been the impact of FDI on macroeconomic performance? Which policy priorities/reforms needed to boost FDI are pending? These questions and answers should interest policy makers, academics, and all those interested in FDI in the South Asian region and in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

Book Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment

Download or read book Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment written by Mr.James P Walsh and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a dataset which breaks down FDI flows into primary, secondary and tertiary sector investments and a GMM dynamic approach to address concerns about endogeneity, the paper analyzes various macroeconomic, developmental, and institutional/qualitative determinants of FDI in a sample of emerging market and developed economies. While FDI flows into the primary sector show little dependence on any of these variables, secondary and tertiary sector investments are affected in different ways by countries’ income levels and exchange rate valuation, as well as development indicators such as financial depth and school enrollment, and institutional factors such as judicial independence and labor market flexibility. Finally, we find that the effect of these factors often differs between advanced and emerging economies.

Book The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment

Download or read book The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment written by Centre on Transnational Corporations (United Nations) and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foreign Direct Investment for Development Maximising benefits  minimising costs

Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment for Development Maximising benefits minimising costs written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2002-09-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive review of the issues related to the impact of FDI on development as well as to the policies needed to maximise the benefits.

Book Foreign Direct Investment  Location and Competitiveness

Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment Location and Competitiveness written by European International Business Academy. Conference and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2008 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses some of the critical issues now demanding the attention of International Business teachers and researchers. From several angles, the contributions analyze factors which may explain, and/or influence the relationship between the competitiveness of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the countries in which they operate. More particularly, the four main issues address: the recent advances in the determinants and strategy of multinational business activity; the determinants of location competitiveness of countries; the competitiveness of emergent and developing countries and the locational responses of both indigenous and foreign-owned firms; and the policy challenges raised by the highly fragmented, and often uncoordinated international regulatory framework on government FDI. It is hoped the contents of the volume will be of interest to international business scholars, senior executives of multinational enterprises and national policy makers interested in advancing their competitiveness by engaging in outward, and encouraging inward foreign direct investment. This book addresses some of the critical issues now demanding the attention of International Business teachers and researchers. This book is published annually.

Book Foreign Direct Investment in China

Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment in China written by Yingqi Wei and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The data used is rich, including national, regional and industry-level statistics.' - Yue Ma, The China Journal 'Wei and Liu provide a comprehensive analysis of the determinants and impact of FDI on the economy of China. The book is to be recommended to students of international business for its elegant use of sophisticated econometric techniques and economic theory in exploring the role of FDI in a major emerging economy that hosts a substantial volume of FDI.' - V.N.Balasubramanyam, Lancaster University, UK China is now among the top hosts for foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in the world. This fact, combined with recent developments in internationalisation and economic growth in China, ensures a perfect opportunity to identify the determinants and impact of FDI in the largest transition economy in the world.

Book The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries

Download or read book The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries written by Asem Shaill Teeb and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: