Foreign direct investment in relation to domestic investment and international trade: a survey

Keywords: Central Asia; transition economies; foreign direct investment; official development assistance; gross fixed capital formation.. JEL classification: F21, F30,

XPT jt is bilateral export flows between Pakistan and country j at time t; MPT jt is bilateral import flows between Pakistan and country j at time t; NET-XPT jt is

Growth rate of real value of exports Time series & pooled, annual data for 26 developing countries from 1963-73..

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) not only provides the African countries with much needed capital for domestic investment, but also creates employment opportunities, helps transfer of

Section V discusses ways through which emerging economies can effect economic integration through enhanced competitiveness and accelerated catching-up, by leveraging

The use of bilateral data allows me to explicitly test for a signaling effect by replacing the BIT dummy in my base specification with the number of BITs that the host has signed

West University from Timisoara (Romania), Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Finance Department. 1

Having in mind that economic reasons are crucial in the explanation of FDI flows, the examination of empirical literature around developing countries inflows shows that the flows