This study has examined the moderating role of Political Stability (PS) on the relationships between microeconomic variables, business environment variables and the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows in Pakistan.This study confined to the annual data for the period from 1991 to 2011 obtained from the authentic sources.The empirical analysis involved using the ADF test to check the stationary of the data, the EViewssoftware and hierarchal regression Business and Economic Research ISSN 2162-4860 2012 www.macrothink.org/ber 157 using the SPSS statistical software package. The statistical results of the study confirmed that that degree of openness, the Labor minimum wage and Infrastructure were significant predictors of FDI inflows. On the other hand, other variables such as GDP growth rate and the rule of law were not significant in determining the FDI inflows in Pakistan.However, the GDP growth rate tends to be a significant determinant of FDI inflows when the moderating effect of the Political stability is accounted for. These findings, thus, strongly suggested that political stability is crucial for the country's domestic and foreign investment in the future course of direction.

This paper examined the comparative trend and pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows in Vietnam over the period (2001-2011) in the ASEAN setting. Astonishingly, the period study has detected a declining trend of FDI inflows in Vietnam at the end of the preceding decade and being of the current decade. Together with the Vietnamese other parameters, the business environment is, thus, analyzed for a better perception and galvanizing ideas for policy diagnosis in the future course of direction of the FDI into the country. Moreover, for a better regional contribution, a formation of VCLT-DS (Vietnam,