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Foreign Aid, Foreign Direct Investment, and Domestic Investment Nexus in Landlocked Economies of Central Asia

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  • Annageldy Arazmuradov

    (SDepartment of Economics and Management of Technology, University of Bergamo, Dalmine, Italy)

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This paper investigates the relationship between foreign aid (ODA), foreign direct investment (FDI), and their effect on domestic investment in five landlocked and emerging economies of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan - for the period 1992–2009. It is important for donor countries to understand whether or not their aid helps to bring in private capital essential in transition period. If it does, it creates a ground for public-private partnership that could restore conditions for economic growth in transition economies. If it does not, then it is necessary to reassess the mechanisms of aid architecture. As aggregate time series are expected to affect each other, we employ a multivariate system of seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) equations. We test the ODA-FDI link on two levels: regional and country. On the regional level, results indicate that (1) aid has a significant positive complementing effect on FDI inflows and (2) FDI complements domestic i vestment, while ODA decreases it. However, on a country level, foreign aid catalyzes FDI inflows only in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Our evidence suggests that the ODA-FDI nexus is present in countries with substantial aid inflows and dwindling economic performance.

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  • Annageldy Arazmuradov, 2012. "Foreign Aid, Foreign Direct Investment, and Domestic Investment Nexus in Landlocked Economies of Central Asia," Economic Research Guardian, Mutascu Publishing, vol. 2(1), pages 129-151, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:wei:journl:v:2:y:2012:i:1:p:129-151
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    1. Sharofiddin Ashurov & Anwar Hasan Abdullah Othman & Romzie Bin Rosman & Razali Bin Haron, 2020. "The determinants of foreign direct investment in Central Asian region: A case study of Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (A quantitative analysis using GMM)," Russian Journal of Economics, ARPHA Platform, vol. 6(2), pages 162-176, June.
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    JEL classification:

    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • F30 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - General
    • P33 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - International Trade, Finance, Investment, Relations, and Aid
    • O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development

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