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Foreign Direct Investment and its Determinants: A Look to the Past, A View to the Future

In: Foreign Investment in Developing Countries

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  • Glauco Vita
  • Kevin Lawler

Abstract

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has long been a subject of interest. This interest has been renewed in recent years due to the strong expansion of world FDI flows recorded since the 1980s, an expansion that has made FDI even more important than trade as a vehicle for international economic integration. Given this fact, it should come as no surprise that a large number of theoretical explanations as to the very existence of FDI have been advanced over the years, with many studies focusing on the investigation of the determinants of such investment. However, despite the abundance of research, there is at present no universally accepted model of FDI, there is still some confusion over what are the key factors capable of explaining a country’s propensity to attract investment by multinational enterprises (MNEs) and it is not yet clear how globalization is likely to influence the determinants of, and motivations for, FDI. These unresolved issues are of special importance to developing countries that now more than ever seek to attract FDI to fuel economic growth.1

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  • Glauco Vita & Kevin Lawler, 2004. "Foreign Direct Investment and its Determinants: A Look to the Past, A View to the Future," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Harbhajan S. Kehal (ed.), Foreign Investment in Developing Countries, chapter 1, pages 13-32, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-55441-2_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230554412_2
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    1. Miguel D. Ramirez, 2014. "Remittances and Economic Growth in Mexico: An Empirical Study with Structural Breaks, 1970-2010," Business and Economic Research, Macrothink Institute, vol. 4(1), pages 351-373, June.
    2. Miguel D. Ramirez, 2023. "Do Remittances Promote Labor Productivity in Mexico? A DOLS and FMOLS Analysis, 1970-2017," Bulletin of Applied Economics, Risk Market Journals, vol. 10(1), pages 115-131.
    3. Miguel D. Ramirez, 2011. "Foreign Direct Investment And Its Determinants In The Chilean Case: Single Break Unit Root And Cointegration Analysis," Applied Econometrics and International Development, Euro-American Association of Economic Development, vol. 11(1).
    4. Miguel D. Ramirez, 2010. "Foreign Direct Investment and its Determinants in the Chilean Case: Unit Roots, Structural Breaks, and Cointegration Analysis," Working Papers 1006, Trinity College, Department of Economics.
    5. Miguel D. Ramirez, 2017. "Economic and Institutional Determinants of FDI in the Chilean Case: An Empirical Analysis, 1960-2014," Research in Applied Economics, Macrothink Institute, vol. 9(3), pages 1-23, September.
    6. Miguel D. Ramirez, 2017. "Do Remittances Promote Labor Productivity Growth in Mexico? An Empirical Analysis, 1970-2014," Working Papers 1702, Trinity College, Department of Economics.
    7. Miguel Ramirez, 2011. "Remittance Flows and Economic Growth in Mexico: A Single Break Unit Root and Cointegration Analysis, 1970-2009," Working Papers 1106, Trinity College, Department of Economics.
    8. Miguel Ramirez, 2013. "Remittances and Economic Growth in Mexico: An Empirical Study with Structural Breaks," Working Papers 1306, Trinity College, Department of Economics.

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