This paper examines the precise links between foreign direct investment (henceforth, FDI) and poverty alleviation … international borders, therefore FDI reduces poverty only under certain circumstances. “Roll out the red carpet for foreign … more FDI, exploit it more efficiently and reduce poverty. Empirical analysis using panel data of 62 countries, from 1996 to …

to 1996, and the available estimations suggested that two thirds of the population was poor. This high level of poverty … macroeconomic policies, poverty would have been much lower than observed. …

This study aims to investigate the role of economic growth and inflation in explaining the prevalence of poverty in … poverty, economic growth, inflation, investment and trade openness over the period of 1972-2008. Empirical results show that … economic growth and investment have negative and inflation has positive impact on poverty. The effect of trade openness on …

growth rates and substantial poverty reduction, with the share of the population living in poverty declining from 67.9 to 57 ….1 percent. Poverty in urban areas was reduced faster than in rural areas, as most of the investment benefited the manufacturing …

Inward FDI to the middle-income countries has the evidence as a major stimulus to the economic growth; conventionally … capital formation, foreign reserve, infrastructure etc. accelerates the FDI inflows. This study reviews the long-run trend on … the time scale of FDI to Bangladesh over the period 1975- 2006 and major factors determining foreign companies' decisions …

This paper investigates the effect of FDI on economic growth conditional on the institutional quality of host countries … develop several arguments to show that institutional quality modulates the intensity of FDI impact on growth. Using a … threshold of institutional quality that influence the FDI growth effect. These results have significant implications for policy …

LDCs. And this change is also associated with a historic employment transition, where the agricultural sector gradually … loses importance. Both the population and the employment transition that can be observed for the group of least develops …