The last fifteen years have seen a remarkable growth of foreign direct investments (FDI) in Central, Eastern and South-eastern European countries. This growth has led to a substantial interest by the international economics literature to empirically investigate the fundamental factors that drove FDI behaviour. The reason is twofold. First of all, FDI became an important part of the domestic eco...

For FDI to help achieve the international development goal of halving absolute poverty, two conditions have to be met. First, poor developing countries need to be attractive to foreign investors. Second, the host-country environment in which foreign investors operate must be conducive to favourable FDI effects with regard to overall investment, economic spillovers and income growth. This paper ...

Why and how firms take advantage of foreign opportunities, especially via foreign direct investment (FDI) has been much documented. China, as a major emerging market, has attracted significant flows of FDI, to become the second largest receipt. This paper briefly examines the literature on FDI and focuses on likely determinants of FDI in China. It then analyses responses from 22 firms operating...

This paper investigates the simultaneous causal relationship between investments in information and communication technology (ICT) and foreign direct investment (FDI), with reference to its implications on economic growth. For the empirical analysis we use data from 23 major countries with heterogeneous economics development for the period 1976–99. The results of unit roots and Johansen co-inte...

The current research aims to contribute to the debate on whether China competes with its neighbouring economies for inward foreign direct investment (FDI). Our results indicate that China has not diverted inward FDI from other Asian economies as a whole. If we view FDI inflows in the region as part of systemic globalization strategies adopted by transnational corporations, China may in fact hav...

This study, examines the roles of macroeconomic uncertainty, political risk, as well as host country institutions, in affecting FDI inflows into African economies. The past few decades have witnessed a surge of FDI inflows to developing regions. However, FDI inflows to Africa still remain small when compared to other developing regions. What characteristics does Africa exhibit that deter FDI in...

Article history: Received 24 February 2009 Revised 25 March 2009 Accepted 25 March 2009 In this work, we for the first time study the inter-industrial clustering behaviors of integrated circuit (IC) industry fromTaiwan toChinavia amountof foreigndirect investment (FDI). According to themutual dependence among IC design,manufacturing and packaging-and-testing industries, Lotka–Volterra model is ...

The paper investigated the effect of investment promotion (IP) on foreign direct investment flow (FDI) into Ghana. Cointegration among the variables was established using auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) models in the presence of a mix of I (0) and I (1) variables. The control variables, inflation and trade openness were statistically significant in the short run. Whilst inflation exerted...

The fact that China is the second largest recipient of FDI in the world has been heralded by economists and government officials alike as one of the crowning achievements of Chinese economy. This paper questions this perspective. The paper focuses on FDI from ethnically Chinese economies (ECEs), which has financed China’s labor-intensive industries and its export growth. First, the paper shows ...

Although FDI is widely believed to have a positive effect on economic growth, the exact mechanism of how FDI impacts upon the development process of the newly industrialising economies is far from being well understood. This paper presents and tests two propositions on the role of FDI in economic growth from a newly industrialising economy’s perspective. First, FDI is a mover of production effi...