What accounts for variations in FDI flows from advanced to developing countries? How have FDI inflows explained cross … drivers of FDI outflows to low-income countries in the pre-crisis period; (ii) economic fundamentals, the strength of economic … reforms, and commitment to macroeconomic discipline are crucial determinants of the growth dividends of FDI. Our paper …

Using a dataset which breaks down FDI flows into primary, secondary and tertiary sector investments and a GMM dynamic …/qualitative determinants of FDI in a sample of emerging market and developed economies. While FDI flows into the primary sector show little …

China's increasing openness to foreign direct investment (FDI) has contributed importantly to its exceptional growth … performance. This paper examines China's experience with FDI and identifies some lessons for other countries. Most of the factors … explaining China's success have also been important in attracting FDI to other countries: market size, labor costs, quality of …

In view of disappointing levels of inward foreign direct investment (FDI), this paper examines capital flows into the … projects, large privatization transactions, and debt/equity swaps to pay for energy supplies. Low FDI inflows despite …

have significant implications for the rest of the world in terms foreign direct investment (FDI) from the United States …

located far away. Firm optimisation then leads less productive firms to self-select themselves for FDI. We test this …

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 …