Since the beginning of the 1990s, foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries has increased dramatically …. The distribution of FDI flows across these countries, however, is highly uneven; only a small number attract comparatively … large amounts of foreign capital. This paper investigates whether the pattern of FDI flows can be explained by the standard …

This paper summarizes recent arguments/findings on two aspects of foreign direct investment (FDI): its correlation with … economic growth and its determinants. The first part focuses on recent literature regarding positive spillovers from FDI while … the second deals with the determinants of FDI. The paper finds that while substantial support exists for positive …

inflows of external income?the sum of remittances, FDI and general government transfers?from major oil-exporting economies …

We test the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in a cross-country regression framework …, utilizing data on FDI flows from industrial countries to 69 developing countries over the last two decades. Our results suggest … that FDI is an important vehicle for the transfer of technology, contributing relatively more to growth than domestic …

the sectoral composition of FDI. It shows that FDI in the tradable sectors leads to an improvement of the external balance … labor force are more likely to receive more FDI in the tradable sectors …