Introduction to Foreign Direct Investment Foreign direct investment (FDI)‚ in its simplest term‚ is when a company from one country makes an investment into building a facility in another country‚ or when investments are made in order to acquire a certain stake in enterprises operating outside the economy and country of the investor. FDI plays an extraordinary role for firms wanting to operate and compete in a global business. It can provide a firm with new markets to penetrate‚ cheaper production
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Research Vol. 5‚ No. 3; March 2012 The Effect of Investment Promotion on Foreign Direct Investment Inflow into Ghana Justice G. Djokoto Department of Agribusiness‚ Central Business School‚ Central University College P. O. Box DS 2310‚ Dansoman‚ Accra‚ Ghana Tel: 233-28-503-7399 Received: January 10‚ 2012 doi:10.5539/ibr.v5n3p46 Abstract The paper investigated the effect of investment promotion (IP) on foreign direct investment flow (FDI) into Ghana. Cointegration among the variables was established
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Foreign Direct Investment in Services and Manufacturing Productivity: Evidence for Chile Ana M. Fernandes a The World Bank Caroline Paunov b OECD March 2011 Journal of Development Economics forthcoming Abstract This paper examines the impact of substantial foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in producer service sectors on the total factor productivity (TFP) of Chilean manufacturing firms. Positive effects are obtained in firm fixed effects instrumental variables regressions and show
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NEW CONTRIBUTIONS OF THESIS Thesis subject: Strengthening the attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) capital into Nghe An province. Speciality: Financial and Banking Economics Code: 62.31.12.01 PhD candidate: DANG THANH CUONG Instructed by: ASSOC. PROF. PHD NGUYEN THI BAT Training institution: National Economics University 1. New contributions in academic‚ theoretical aspects. (1) On the basis of inhering the pervious researches on attraction of FDI‚ combining with actual investigation
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Foreign Direct Investment in India since 1991: Trends‚ Challenges and Prospects M.K. Dutta‚ Assistant Professor (Economics)‚ Department of Humanities and Social Sciences‚ IIT Guwahati‚ Assam‚ India E-mail: mkdutta@iitg.ernet.in & G.K. Sarma‚ Research Scholar (Economics)‚ Department of Humanities and Social Sciences‚ IIT Guwahati‚ Assam‚ India E-mail: g.sarma@iitg.ernet.in (An earlier version of the paper was published as Dutta‚ M.K. and Sarma‚ G.K. (2008) ‘ Foreign Direct Investment
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ABSTRACT This study attempted to estimate the environmental impact of Foreign Direct Investment in the mining sector in Nigeria. It is argued that only those countries that have reached a certain income level can absorb new technologies and benefit from technology diffusion‚ and thus reap the extra advantages that FDI can offer. The mining industry in Nigeria is dominated by oil. Indeed‚ Nigeria is the largest producer of this commodity in Africa and sixth largest producers in the world. This research
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Essay Critical Evaluation of Institutional Factors Impact on Outward/Inward Foreign Direct Investment This aim of this essay is to evaluate the impact of institutional factors on outward and inward FDI. This will be done by determination of the major FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) factors‚ evaluation of the role of institutional factors and investigation of institutional factors impact on inward and outward FDI flows. Several sources (Aswathappa‚ 2012; Jensen‚ 2012) have identified FDI as an
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Project title: Spillover effects of FDI: Do domestic manufacturing firms benefit from foreign direct investment in Vietnam. Introduction Back in the 1990s‚ foreign direct investment (FDI) became the largest source of external finance for many developing countries. In Vietnam in particular‚ the Law on Foreign Investment promulgated in the 1986 Congress to attract FDI was considered the first step of the doi moi (renovation) reform. The cumulative FDI increased from 28 projects of total US$ 140
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attracting multinational firms would create more job opportunities and eventually better off for the whole economy. There have been some evidences that foreign direct investment (FDI) benefited developed countries’ economy. Recently‚ the Australian government has proposed a new policy that would give fairly large incentives to foreign direct investors. However whether the FDI would benefit Australia’s automobile industry and textile industry‚ is questionable‚ and needs to be critically evaluated. This
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goods‚ service and capital etc. have begun to span the geological border of each country and been widely circulated in the world under the promotion of the globalization. Especially the capital internationalization whose main form is international direct investment is the most frequent. The capital internationalization includes two dimensional contents: on one hand‚ it’s an international of investor structure; on the other hand‚ it’s also an international of enterprise organization structure‚ including
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