This paper examines the importance of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on economic growth. Using a panel data set for 27 … empirical findings show that FDI does exhibit a significant relationship with economic growth, at least, for those transition …

(FDI), the empirical literature has been unable to establish a positive and significant impact of FDI on the rates of … economic growth of host countries. One reason for this difficulty is that theory equates FDI to technology transferred, while … in most countries and regions of the world FDI encompasses an array of arrangements that goes well beyond pure technology …

types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly represent a rent accruing to previous owners, and do not necessarily … contribute to expanding the host country's capital stock. The model suggests that greenfield FDI has a stronger impact on growth … than M&A sales. This hypothesis is supported by our empirical results, which show that greenfield FDI enhances growth …

In spite of being the second largest recipient of FDI in the world, China shows limited evidence of considerable FDI … whether poor financial market development might be responsible for the relatively low benefits of FDI on growth in China. We … intermediation does indeed limit the transmission of FDI benefits within the Chinese economy. Moreover, the study reveals preliminary …

Even promoted in a systematic manner, the policy of FDI attraction in order to generate economic growth in the Central …

This paper aims at analyzing the possible influence of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in the … particular case of Middle East and North African countries (MENA). During the last years, the relation between FDI and growth in … LDCs has been discussed extensively in the economic literature. However, the view that FDI stimulates economic growth does …

This paper aims at analyzing the possible influence of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in the … particular case of Middle East and North African countries (MENA). During the last years, the relation between FDI and growth in … LDCs has been discussed extensively in the economic literature. However, the view that FDI stimulates economic growth does …

Despite the fact that previous studies have extensively investigated the foreign direct investment (FDI)-growth nexus … changes. This paper investigates the causal nexus between FDI, growth, and terms of trade volatility (TOTV) in Estonia, Latvia … causality is bidirectional between FDI and growth in Estonia and unidirectional (running from FDI to growth) in Latvia and …

-run, FDI and domestic investments has prospects for sustainable development in Nigeria through green growth …

This paper investigates the effect of FDI on economic growth conditional on the institutional quality of host countries … countries, we show that FDI has a positive effect on growth only beyond a certain threshold of institutional quality. In order … to benefit from FDI-led growth, institutional reforms should thus precede FDI attraction policies. Additionally, some …