Economic Growth and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: The Case of Qatar

Recently, Qatar, a well-known oil production country, has been convinced as a successful case in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) as a smaller economy. This paper aims to investigate how FDI inflows affect Qatar’s business cycles. Time-series data was selected from 1990 to 2010 as availabl...

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Main Authors:	Almfraji, Mohammad Amin, Almsafir, Mahmoud Khalid, Liu, Yao
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Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2014
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spelling	ump-59372015-10-21T01:16:44Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5937/ Economic Growth and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: The Case of Qatar Almfraji, Mohammad Amin Almsafir, Mahmoud Khalid Liu, Yao T Technology (General) Recently, Qatar, a well-known oil production country, has been convinced as a successful case in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) as a smaller economy. This paper aims to investigate how FDI inflows affect Qatar’s business cycles. Time-series data was selected from 1990 to 2010 as available. The VAR Impulse Responses and the Granger Causality test were mainly employed by using Eviews. The derived result shows that the FDI inflows and the economic growth in Qatar interact with each other in a relatively long term. Elsevier 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by_nc_nd http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5937/1/Economic_Growth_and_Foreign_Direct_Investment_Inflows__The_Case_of_Qatar.pdf Almfraji, Mohammad Amin and Almsafir, Mahmoud Khalid and Liu, Yao (2014) Economic Growth and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: The Case of Qatar. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 109. pp. 1040-1045. ISSN 1877-0428 (print); 1877-0428 (online) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.12.586 DOI:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.12.586
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description	Recently, Qatar, a well-known oil production country, has been convinced as a successful case in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) as a smaller economy. This paper aims to investigate how FDI inflows affect Qatar’s business cycles. Time-series data was selected from 1990 to 2010 as available. The VAR Impulse Responses and the Granger Causality test were mainly employed by using Eviews. The derived result shows that the FDI inflows and the economic growth in Qatar interact with each other in a relatively long term.
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author	Almfraji, Mohammad Amin Almsafir, Mahmoud Khalid Liu, Yao
author_facet	Almfraji, Mohammad Amin Almsafir, Mahmoud Khalid Liu, Yao
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title	Economic Growth and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: The Case of Qatar
title_short	Economic Growth and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: The Case of Qatar
title_full	Economic Growth and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: The Case of Qatar
title_fullStr	Economic Growth and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: The Case of Qatar
title_full_unstemmed	Economic Growth and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: The Case of Qatar
title_sort	economic growth and foreign direct investment inflows: the case of qatar
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