This paper examines the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on South Asian economies' output growth, utilizing recent panel cointegration testing and estimation techniques. Annual panel data on eight SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) member countries' macroeconomic...

This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth of SAARC countries. The Log of GDP per capita is selected as dependent variable while Log of foreign direct investment, public health expenditure, labor force participation rate, schooling and Log of merchandise...

This paper examines the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on South Asian economies’ output growth, utilizing recent panel cointegration testing and estimation techniques. Annual panel data on eight SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) member countries’...

The aim of this paper is to reinvestigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on welfare or poverty reduction in Asia. We used FDI net inflows per capita and the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Index (HDI) as the principal variables. Our analyses confirm...

The study aims to understand the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI), exports (EXP) and imports (IMP) on economic growth in South Asian countries (SAARC). A dataset for the period 2000-2020 was used for the analysis collected primarily from World Bank (WB) sources. The analysis was...