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Tendencias Recientes de la Inversión Extranjera Directa en Uruguay

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  • Gustavo Bittencourt

    (Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República)

  • Gastón Carracelas

    (Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República)

  • Andrea Doneschi

    (Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República)

  • Nicolas Reig Lorenzi

    (Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República)

Abstract

International tendencies in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) show that transnationalization process increased quickly in the last years. Uruguay showed in the nineties a good capacity of attract FDI. However, since the economic recovery after the 2002 crisis, the country saw huge amounts of FDI. The entrance flow of FDI reached in 2007-2008 an annual average of US$ 1,594 millions, equivalent to the 5.5% of the GDP. This paper analyzes the tendencies and evolution of the FDI in the country from the nineties and the economic changes related with the foreign capital and its role in the recent growth phase. We specially discuss if the increase in the FDI could contribute to the growth sustainability in the medium and long term, with the diversification of the productive structure and the incorporation of technology and innovation in the productive processes, increasing high value added exports and improving the trade specialization of Uruguay.

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  • Gustavo Bittencourt & Gastón Carracelas & Andrea Doneschi & Nicolas Reig Lorenzi, 2009. "Tendencias Recientes de la Inversión Extranjera Directa en Uruguay," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 2709, Department of Economics - dECON.
    • Handle: RePEc:ude:wpaper:2709
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    Cited by:

    1. Adriana Peluffo, 2015. "Foreign Direct Investment, Productivity, Demand for Skilled Labour and Wage Inequality: An Analysis of Uruguay," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(6), pages 962-983, June.
    2. Burdín, Gabriel & De Rosa, Mauricio & Vigorito, Andrea & Vilá, Joan, 2022. "Falling inequality and the growing capital income share: Reconciling divergent trends in survey and tax data," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
    3. Alejandro Saravia & Martine Guibert & Pedro Arbeletche & Maëlle Gedouin & Luc Capdevila & Hermes Moralès & Jean-François Tourrand, 2015. "L'agriculture uruguayenne face aux investisseurs sud-américains," Post-Print hal-02081997, HAL.

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    Keywords

    Foreign Direct Investment; Transnational Enterprises.;

    JEL classification:

    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • Y - Miscellaneous Categories
    • F10 - International Economics - - Trade - - - General

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