Nowadays, Foreign Capital Inflows (FCIs) are considered as a catalyst for economic development and an important source of transferring technology and foreign exchange earnings from developed to developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of FCIs (which include foreign direct investment, personal remittances and official development investment) on economic growth in...

Governments often promote inward foreign investment to encourage technology “spillovers” from foreign to domestic firms. Using panel data on Venezuelan plants, we find that foreign equity participation is positively correlated with plant productivity (the “own-plant” effect), but this relationship is only robust for small enterprises. We then test for spillovers from joint ventures to plants wi...

this paper evaluates the real exchange rate fluctuations and uncertainties resulting from it, in the iranian economy. for this purpose, at first indirect effect of real exchange rate uncertainties on economic growth through foreign investment, private investment and exports are expressed, then the real exchange rate uncertainties and its relationship with economic growth and final pattern of in...

In the 13 years preceding 1995, foreign direct investment in the U.S. forest industry increased 54 percent, but the U.S. direct investment in forest industry abroad nearly doubled. The forest industry's share of total foreign investment in the U.S. manufacturing sector declined, but its share of foreign investment abroad increased. During the same period, the U.S. forest industry attracted only...

T his study investigates the effects of extra-ECOWAS merchandise trade and investment flows on the transmission of business cycles in the selected ECOWAS between 1985 and 2014.  The study finds that total trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) significantly influence the transmission of business cycles with elasticities of 1.1 and 0.7, respectively in the long run. There are little vari...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is frequently regarded as a key driver of global economic integration because it brings job opportunities, capital investment, and business experience. The current study examines the impact of foreign direct investment on Afghanistan's economic growth using time-series data from 2007 to 2019, which are collected from the World Bank and the International Monetary ...

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 investmentplays a crucial role in the economy of developing countries like bangladesh through accelerating gross domestic product (gdp), export and domestic investment followed by overall economic growth. the present scenario of fdi in bangladesh in not still satisfactory enough but given the availability of abundant resources, skilled and cheap labor forces, a stable political a...