For growing economies, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has momentous advantages over equity and debt capital flows. Most of the foreign firms that start their conduct of business in other countries, they not only come with capital but transfer modern technology, promote human capital by training the host country’s employees according to the change of technology to those countries, and this is the key for the development of the host country.
According to author Direct Investment replicates aspire of acquiring an enduring awareness by an inhabitant body of one economy that is the direct investor in a venture that is occupier in another economy which is called the direct investment enterprise. The “lasting interest” entails the continuation of a long-term relationship between the direct investor and the direct investment enterprise and an important level of authority on the management of the latter.
Direct investment involves both the initial transaction instituting the relationship between the investor and the enterprise and all succeeding capital transactions between them and among affiliated enterprises; both incorporated and unincorporated (Duce & Espana, 2003).
Author described that Foreign Direct Investment is considered as a growth enhancing factor for the developing countries. FDI can enhance the growth through different ways in the host country, one of those ways transfer of technology is the most important mean. Through this transfer of technology the interaction between the multinational firms and domestic firms increases that leads to the combined effort towards the economic growth. Technology should be interpreted as product, process, distribution, management, marketing (Khan, 2007).
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...h and so on, in order to provide better employment opportunities for educated and skilled people so that they can play a vital role in the productivity and modernizing the economy. Due to the modernized economy the living standard of people of the country raised because the level of domestic saving increased and helped in capital formation. According to the author there are three primary components upon which Pakistan’s foreign investment regime relies, these are regulatory, economic and socio political. The regulatory regime of the Pakistan is considered moderate in the case of privatization and deregulation. In order to protect Foreign Investors the regulatory framework for foreign investment consists of three laws such as Foreign Private Investment Act 1992, Furtherance and Protection of Economic Reforms Act 1992, and Foreign Currency Accounts Ordinance 2001.
To begin with, this research exposed a FDI puzzle between India and China through analyzing the current economic condition. Prime, Subrahmanyam and Lin (2011) stated, "Given their growth records, large markets, and reformed economic systems, both China and India appear to be equally likely candidates for foreign direct investment. Yet, China has received substantially more FDI" (p. 303).
Flow of money for the purpose of investments from one country to another country is called as Foreign Direct Investments. It is an investment made by a company based in one country for long lasting interest or controlling stake into a company in a foreign country. The nature of FDI could be either be inward or outward. Inward FDI refers to direct investments flowing into the home country from foreign land, and outward FDI refers to home country making direct investments in foreign land. The difference between inward FDI and outward FDI is net FDI inflow. Net FDI inflow could be either positive or negative based on the investments flowing between countries.
C/E/110. FDI in emerging economies: the case of EECThe paper discusses the importance of inbound FDI for emerging economies. Among the considered benefits are economic growth, the growth of internal market, technological sipll -overs and access to cheap managerial know-how. The paper also considers the motivational forces that push and pull investors to stream their capitals into particular destinations and business areas.
I found this article "Foreign direct investment: Companies rush in with the cash" on the financial times website (www.FT.com) published December 11, 2002 written by John Thornhill. The reason for choosing this article is my personal interest in the Chinese economy and its attractiveness to the foreign investors. Apart from the foreign direct investment this topic has also helped me in understanding the impact of Chinese economy on the global market.
Since foreign aid programs are here to stay, it is important to focus on the enormous potential for foreign aid to be effective. One such way is through augmenting a state’s ability to attract foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI is a good option because it has the potential to be a more long-term solution than pub...
...irect control of foreign interests, absolute and comparative advantages and sometimes the strength of ties with major foreign markets. The problem of geographic and economic distance is one that is not solved easily. There must be a cross-border trade in goods and services and this could be done with little direct involvement abroad. Businesses may also be able to systematically work local markets abroad by establishing branch offices in the given country. There is also the option of investing in an existing firm abroad, which minimises the risk involved. Ideally, investor motives will broadly match the requirements of target countries or firms, with the interests of the latter focusing on expanding production capacities, enhancing productivity growth, benefiting from employment opportunities and getting access to technological know-how (A. Breitenfellner, 2008).
Due to the sudden collapse of the world’s economy in 2008 M&A became an unfavourable method of FDI and in just one year IFDI into UK shrank by 50%. The trend continued up to 2011, as the FDI pattern moved towards investments into third world countries and developing nations. This enormous change in the FDI graph after the financial crisis is mainly due to a decline in investments from transnational corporations that are located in the European Union. As the world’s economy has...
In conclusion, Ireland is favorable country for FDI regarding its markets, resources, knowledge, efficiency, security and foreign trade opportunities. Further, from the country’s attractiveness that integrated with its PESTEL proved that the benefits and control for foreign companies were able to overcome the risks and costs that they have to bear with. The fact that Ireland was also dragged by global economic recession in 2008 had drawn the country’s GDP and economy condition (The World Factbook, 2009). However, the country’s supports due to foreign investment and government commitment in its political-economy regulations are trusted to sustain Ireland in long-term performance.
Foreign Direct Investment is a major source of capital for most developed and developing countries. It is usually difficult for countries to generate capital through domestic savings and based on their domestic strengths and capacities alone. It is even more difficult to import up-to date technology from abroad taking into consideration issues of transportation and the technical expertise required for operation,
In recent economic climate the link between technology transfers and Foreign Direct Investment seems to be essential for the Multinational Corporations. The main objective of MNCs is to maximize its profits. This requires them to produce the goods and services at the lowest possible cost (fixed and variable) by exploiting the resources of the developing countries apart from their home country (Pool and Stamos 1990). The channels of international technology transfer and their importance of growth have been studies extensively in 1990s. The study identifies three principal channels of international technology spillovers. The first is the direct transfer of technology via international licensing agreement (Eaton and Kortum 1996) on the contrary this source is considered less prominent as most valuable technologies are not available on license (World Investment Report 2000). The second is FDI from developed countries to developing countries as it is considered the cheapest and most reliable technique as a spillover (Blomström and Kokko 1997). The third is technology transfer through international trade where import and export of intermediate goods and capital products are exchanged (Markusen 1989, Clerides, Lach and Tybout 1997). On the other hand, it is seen that MNCs do not encourage spillovers due to (a) transmission of technology to their subsidiaries abroad. (b) Technologies that does not support the host country’s environment. (c) Maintain a control over the technology by reducing the spillovers and encouraging import. (d) Maintaining advanced technology than developing countries through Intellectual Property Rights (Aitken and Harrison et al. 1999). As an emerging economy, India has a huge presence of multinational corporations...
The main concept discussed in this essay is foreign direct investment. FDI is, according to the OECD, “a category of cross-border investment made by a resident entity in one economy (the direct investor) with the objective of establishing a lasting interest in an enterprise (the direct investment enterprise) that is resident in an economy other than that of the direct investor.” Firms invest in foreign economies in order to exploit their particular advantages and FDI is the preferred process, as opposed to licensing or agreements and exports. The advantages that firms often possess are patented technology, managerial skills, marketing skills and brand names.
Figure 1 shows the recent trends in FDI inflows of some developing countries. According to the UNCTAD report of 2011 China has the highest FDI inflows among all the developing countries like Hong Kong, Russia, Singapore, Brazil and India; because China has introduced FDI over 20 years ago and has progressively pursued foreign investment while adjusting its FDI policies. Since 1993, China has attracted the largest amount of FDI of all developing countries while increasing its levels of both exports and technological advancement
FDI is typically regarded as a mode of cross-border inter-firm collaboration which connects with important equity stake and efficient power in managerial decision making in international enterprises (de Mello, 1999). FDI is also an external factor which boost Thailand’s economic growth through employment, transfer of technology and knowledge and relocating manufacturing facility. However, there is increasingly movement of production base into China and India instead of Thailand. As a result, the Thai
Cohen (2007) describe in their research that FDI is just not only a source of Financing. For the developing country an FDI is not only a source of funding, the country can gain skills that can help the people of the country in a long-term basis. Such skills can be classified into different categories such as technology, organizational & management practices, exposure to different working styles & standards and lastly the access to different markets. Before the transition economies crisis (Russia), the inflow of FDI peaked up to 60% of private capital flows in developing economies according to Carkovic and Levine (2005). However the role of FDI inflow has been quite unclear that whether it has a positive or negative role upon the economy of
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