Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth during Financial Liberalization Episodes

Does Foreign Direct Investment Enhance Economic Growth: Insight from Bangladesh

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 ...

Foreign Direct Investment , Openness and Economic Growth :

This paper examines the relationship between foreign direct investment, openness and economic growth in Sudan during the period 1972-2011 using Granger causality and Johansen co-integration techniques to analyze the relationship and direction of causality between the variables. The study used autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to cointegration analysis proposed by Pesaran and Shin (...

Capital account liberalization and foreign direct investment

We examine the impact of capital account policies on FDI inflows. Using an annual panel dataset of 83 developing and developed countries for 1984-2000, we find that capital account openness is positively but only very moderately associated with the amount of FDI inflows after controlling for other macroeconomic and institutional measures. To a large extent, other country characteristics seem to...

An Examination Of Economic Liberalization Impact On Foreign Direct Investment In Selected Developing Countries

Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: Evidence from Iran and GCC

Abstract F DI can create employment and reduce poverty, increase the host country’s export capacity causing the developing country to increase its foreign exchange earnings. The aim of this study is to investigate whether FDI affect economic growth in GCC countries over the period 1980-2014 using ARDL approaches. The empirical results show that the FDI is one of the major drivers of e...