FDI is important in building a sustainable and diversified knowledge-based UAE economy. The stock of FDI grew at an …. FDI flows have not recovered from the global financial crises. Most FDI stock is concentrated in finance, construction …, and real estate. Recent greenfield FDI is concentrated in construction, while more than half of top M&A deals took place …

This article examines trends and patterns of intra-regional foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Asia, with a focus … policy reforms. The empirical evidence pieced together from scattered sources suggests that horizontal (market seeking) FDI … has continued to dominate South Asian intra-regional FDI, with a significant shift in recent years in favour of services …

This paper examines the major determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in 26 European Union (EU …: Western (EU-15) countries and Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. The results from the panel data analysis of FDI … openness, unemployment, infrastructure, tax rate and unit labour costs are able, to a large extent, to explain FDI flows to …

The amount of FDI inflows and the foreign investors' perception of the business environment in Romania underwent a … country of origin of FDI in Romania, reinvested and repatriated profits, the impact on trade balance, as well as the FDI … contribution index and inward FDI attraction index. Starting from a brief overview of FDI inflows in Romania, the paper highlights …

developing countries and consider foreign direct investment (FDI) as a tool of exploitation. This paper tries to examine … empirically the complex relationship between democracy and FDI in a systematic way, using cross-sectional and panel data analysis …, thereby refuting the hypothesis that political repression fosters FDI. Yet this positive link does not hold for the 1970s …