how does inflow of fdi affect economic growth in east asia?

How Does Inflow of FDI Affect Economic Growth in East Asia?

In this paper, we address the question that does FDI alone affect economic growth or interaction of FDI and human capital is required to boost economic growth. We develop the model with an expanding variety of products. We estimate the model using some advanced tests utilizing data on FDI flows from developed countries. We find stronger complementary effects between FDI and human capital on the...

Does FDI Cause Economic Growth

This paper investigates the direction of causal link between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth measured in GDP in nineteen developing countries of SouthEast Asia and Latin America using Cointegration technique, Granger causality test and Error Correction Model (ECM). This paper finds that five countries in Latin America and one country in East and South East Asia have long run...

Does Fdi Cause Economic Growth? Evidence from Selected Countries in Africa and Asia

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...

Microeconomic Determinants of Economic Growth in East Asia

How Does East Asia Achieve Its High Educational Performance?

East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family background is a strong predictor of student performance in South Korea and Singapore, while Hong Kon...

The Roles of Human Capital and Physical Infrastructure on FDI Inflow: Empirical Evidence from East Asia and Sub Saharan Africa

This paper analyzes the impacts of physical infrastructure and human capital on FDI inflow in East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Towards this effect a panel data of 1230 observations of 41 countries from 1975 to 2004 have been analyzed using Prais-Winsten heteroskedastic panels corrected standard errors. The empirical results from this study have confirmed that the main key factors for att...