FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN EMERGING AND DEVELOPED ECONOMIES

In the context of globalization, the issue of foreign direct investments and theirinfluence on the development of the emerging economies, continues to be a topic of interest formany economic theories. The need, the importance and the effects of foreign directinvestments have attracted the attention of all the states and produced an intense competitionto attract the foreign capital. FDI inflows have a very important role in the establishment ofnew world economic powers. In the world economy, the foreign direct investment are orientedin major proportion to developed countries, but the interest in this type of investment isparticularly developed also in the emerging countries who need not only foreign capitalinflows, but also the modern managerial experience and access to markets. The aim of thispaper is to study and analyze the evolution of foreign direct investment in emerging anddeveloped economies in the last twenty years.