Investments, Gross Domestic Produc And Exports Evolution For The Countries With An Imf Agreement

The current economy's flow is given by the dynamism of the multinational companies which are acting globally, increasing the openness of the countries regarding trade through foreign direct investment. With the international financial institutions leading backing them up, privatization, greenfield investments and mergers & acquisitions were strongly promoted as a tool to reduce the budgetary burden caused by state enterprise, bad private management, or other private and public sector inefficiencies, so that FDI inflows can contribute to the increase rate of GDP and also can have a positive impact on the exports flow. In order to see how well this purpose has been achieved by some countries, some economic indicators need to be addressed. That is why the purpose of this study is to presents the economic evolution of those countries which had arrangements with the IMF, from different regions of Europe, Latin America and Asia during the past 30 year, from 1990- 2020, analyzing their Gross Domestic Product, Foreign Direct Investments, and Export with the Compound Annual Growth Rate metric. All the statistical data is taken from the UNCTAD, and the numbers of IMF agreements or arrangements are taken from the IMF website.