INTRODUCTION TO FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS (FDI)
New sources of FDI are emerging among developing and transition economies. Foreign Direct Investment is one of the most important forms of international capital flows. FDI has been growing steadily in its importance, relative to other forms of international investment, for the last 30 years and has accounted for about three quarters of total International Capital Flows from 1998 to 2003. (World Investments, 2006 [Online]) Particularly for developing countries, FDI has been the most important source of foreign investment and an important source of technological spillovers.
Despite the fact that over the past three decades, the rate of growth in the number of studies devoted to FDI has probably surpassed that of the FDI itself, the number of issues in the area that require economic analysis does not seem to be decreasing. But from last couple of year's developing countries or economies are also investing as Outward Foreign Direct......
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