Foreign Direct Investment, Regulations, and Growth

This paper explores the linkage between income growth rates and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. So far the evidence is rather mixed, as no robust relationship between FDI and income growth has been established. The authors argue that countries need a sound business environment in the form o...

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Main Authors:	Busse, Matthias, Groizard, José Luis
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	BANKRUPTCY BASE YEAR BENCHMARK BLACK MARKET BLACK MARKET PREMIUM BUSINESS REGULATIONS CAPITAL FLOWS CIVIL LIBERTIES COMPETITIVENESS COUNTRY CHARACTERISTICS COUNTRY REGRESSIONS DEPENDENT VARIABLE DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS DOMESTIC FIRMS DYNAMIC PANEL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC BENEFITS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC INTEGRATION ECONOMICS ECONOMICS RESEARCH EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPIRICAL LITERATURE EMPIRICAL RESULTS EMPIRICAL STUDIES EMPIRICAL WORK ENDOGENOUS VARIABLES ERROR TERM ESTIMATED COEFFICIENT EXOGENOUS VARIABLES EXPLANATORY VARIABLES EXPORTS FACTOR ENDOWMENTS FDI FINANCIAL MARKET FINANCIAL MARKETS FINANCIAL SYSTEMS FOREIGN CAPITAL FOREIGN CURRENCY FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FOREIGN INVESTMENT FOREIGN INVESTMENTS FRAMEWORK FOR REGULATIONS GDP GDP PER CAPITA GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GROWTH EQUATION GROWTH LITERATURE GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES GROWTH REGRESSION HOST COUNTRIES HOST COUNTRY HOST ECONOMIES HOST ECONOMY HUMAN CAPITAL IMPACT OF REGULATIONS INCOME GROWTH INCOME LEVELS INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS INFLATION RATE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTMENT DECISIONS LABOR MARKET LAGGED GROWTH LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES LIQUIDITY MIDDLE EAST MODEL SPECIFICATIONS MONETARY ECONOMICS MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES NEGATIVE SIGN NORTH AFRICA 0 HYPOTHESIS PER CAPITA GROWTH PER CAPITA INCOME POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POSITIVE EFFECTS PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES QUALITY REGULATIONS REGRESSION ANALYSIS REGULATORY COSTS REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT REGULATORY FRAMEWORK SIGNIFICANT IMPACT STANDARD DEVIATION SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TECHNOLOGY SPILLOVERS TRADE LIBERALIZATION VERTICAL LINKAGES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/04/6727744/foreign-direct-investment-regulations-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8728

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8728

Foreign Direct Investment, Regulations, and Growth

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