An analysis of the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth

By Jonathan A. Batten, X. Vo. 2009

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The relationship between Co2 emissions, energy consumption, economic growth and FDI: the case of Turkey (2016, background): “…new job alternatives and encourages entrepreneurship and competitiveness, which are the most important tools for the rapid growth of developing countries (Mallampally and Sauvant 1999; Hermes and Lensink 2003; Batten and Vo 2009; Reiter and Steensma 2010; Fernandes and Paunov 2012; Lee 2013).”
The contribution of foreign direct investment to clean energy use, carbon emissions and economic growth (2013, background): “Batten and Vo (2009) have shown that FDI stimulates economic growth through technology transfer, spillover effects, productivity gains, and the introduction of new processes and managerial skills.”
Human capital, R&D, trade, and long-run productivity. Testing the technological absorption hypothesis for the Portuguese economy, 1960–2001 (2010, background): “, Tavares and Teixeira, 2005) and FDI-human capital-growth for a large set of countries (Batten and Vo, 2009), we found that human capital is crucial to enable the FDI spillovers that underpin economic growth.”
The Impact of FDI Inflows and Environmental Quality on Economic Growth: an Empirical Study for the MENA Countries (2017, background): “On the other hand, other empirical studies, Barrell and Pain 1999; Chakrabarti 2001; Schiff and Wang 2008; Batten and Vo 2009; Hooi and Wah 2010; Aizhan and Makaevna 2011; Soltani and Ochi 2012; and Melnyk et al. 2014) confirm that there is a positive impact of FDI inflow on economic growth.”
Does Foreign Direct Investment Generate Economic Growth? A New Empirical Approach Applied to Spain (2018, background): “…macro-based articles on both developed and developing countries indicate a positive effect of FDI inflows (Olofsdotter 1998; Reisen and Soto 2001), albeit differing by country, and indicating the importance of host economy characteristics (Alfaro et al. 2004; Li and Liu 2005; Batten and Vo 2009).”