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....

This paper examines how capital controls affect FDI decisions and how the impact of these restrictive measures varies with different levels of country risk. We construct a model of firms' FDI decisions, broadly in Dunning's "eclectic theory" framework, using "real options" to emphasize economic...

This report discusses major developments in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), and updates the statistical tables on recent economic developments and provides an overview of the real sector. Factors that have limited revenue collections and developments in the monetary and...

The article defines a necessity of development of foreign investing into Ukraine. It contains analysis of the process of attraction of direct foreign investments into domestic economy. It considers main problems of worsening the investment climate in the state and offers a system of measures for...

В статье представлены результаты исследования инвестиционного потенциала Владимирской области. Определены сильные и слабые стороны инвестиционной...

Проведен сравнительный анализ притока иностранных инвестиций в российскую экономику за период 2005-2012 гг. Рассмотрены региональные особенности привлечения...

Private sector investment has been a key source of growth in Malaysia over the last three decades, but after an unprecedented decline in the wake of the Asian crisis it has remained sluggish in recent years. Using aggregate and firm-level data, this paper aims to explain these trends and their...

This paper reviews the experiences of a few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that have succeeded in attracting fairly large amounts of foreign investment. The review indicates that sustained efforts to promote political and macroeconomic stability and implement essential structural reforms have...