Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows have contributed to the productive and technological upgrading of many host economies, whereas the discussion about the entry modes of multinational companies (MNC) and developmental effects is far from being concluded. Our aim is to exam the relative importance of host country differences in the understanding of FDI configuration and their modes of entry, ...

Most Latin American countries crafted market-friendly reforms during the 1990s. In particular, the political discourse often stressed the attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) as a key component of the quest for development and particularly the fight against poverty. However, the precise link between FDI and poverty has been neglected by the literature, at least by that with an empirica...

The study investigates the impacts of official development assistance (ODA) on the inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in 64 provinces of Vietnam in 2002–2004. These impacts are examined using both the two-stage least squares method and the fixed effects/random effects model. The regression results give evidence of the positive impacts of ODA in infrastructure on FDI inflows, not only by...

With the initiation of globalization, developing countries, particularly those in Asia, have been witnessing a immense surge of FDI inflows during the past two decades. Even though India has been a latecomer to the FDI scene compared to other East Asian countries, its considerable market potential and a liberalized policy regime has sustained its attraction as a favourable destination for forei...

Foreign direct investments (FDIs) have been widely recognized as a crucial feature of the Chinese industrial development process. Over the past decades, China has been attracting huge amounts of inward FDIs as a consequence of both spontaneous market dynamics and place-based preferential policies at the sub-national level. However, the Chinese market exhibits large dissimilarities in terms of F...

The main purpose of this paper is to study the determinants of bilateral foreign direct investment (hereafter FDI) flows in OECD countries. Special emphasis is placed on the new Central and Eastern European members (Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland) in order to assess whether they differ from those of the OECD on the whole. Our theoretical framework is based on the OLI paradigm (ownership...