Foreign direct investment in developing countries and growth: A selective survey

LR De Mello Jr - The journal of development studies, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
This article surveys the latest developments in the literature on the impact of inward foreign
direct investment (FDI) on growth in developing countries. In general, FDI is thought of as a …

Foreign direct investment and economic growth in developing countries: how relevant are host-country and industry characteristics?

P Nunnenkamp, J Spatz - 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Conclusive evidence supporting the widely held view that developing countries should draw
on foreign direct investment (FDI) to spur economic development is surprisingly hard to …

Foreign direct investment and economic growth: Exploring the transmission channels

K Makiela, B Ouattara - Economic Modelling, 2018 - Elsevier
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on growth remains a thorny question for
researchers and policy makers. At the theoretical level it has been argued that FDI is growth …

Does FDI cause development? The ambiguity of the evidence and why it matters

R Narula, N Driffield - The European Journal of Development Research, 2012 - Springer
The contribution that inward foreign direct investment (FDI) makes to development has been
examined in a number of contexts including the relationship between inward FDI and new …

FDI and growth: What cross‐country industry data say

M Cipollina, G Giovannetti, F Pietrovito… - The World …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The theoretical literature has discussed different channels through which foreign direct
investments (FDI) promote host country's economic growth, but empirical analyses have so …

Determinants of, and the relation between, foreign direct investment and growth a summary of the recent literature

EG Lim - 2001 - papers.ssrn.com
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 …

How does foreign direct investment affect economic growth?

E Borensztein, J De Gregorio, JW Lee - Journal of international Economics, 1998 - Elsevier
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 …

Does foreign direct investment promote economic growth? Evidence from East Asia and Latin America

KH Zhang - Contemporary economic policy, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Although there is considerable evidence on the link between foreign direct investment (FDI)
and economic growth in developing countries, causal patterns of the two variables has not …

Foreign direct investment and economic growth: Evidence from cross-country data for the 1990s

R Ram, KH Zhang - Economic Development and Cultural …, 2002 - journals.uchicago.edu
An empirical assessment of the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the economic
growth of the host countries is obviously important. There is a widely shared view that FDI …

How does foreign direct investment affect economic growth

JW Lee, MJ De Gregorio, ME Borensztein - 1994 - ideas.repec.org
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 …