Strategies and Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from Developing Countries: Case Study of Latin America

Determinants of FDI inflows to Arab economies

“…They propose that strong attractive environment needs to be based on combination of tangible (infrastructure) and intangible (governmental policies) endowments. Amal, Raboch, and Tomio (2009) study economic and institutional determinants for three Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile and Mexico over the period 1995-2007, and find that the economic size and globalization level of the institutions have positive effect on FDI. Masuku and Dlamini (2009) study FDI inflows in Swaziland.…”

Foreign Direct Investment from Emerging Economies: Determinants and Strategies

“…Just recently there were some studies trying to combine non-traditional variables with the traditional ones. Amal et al (2009) unveiled that, besides the GDP, the inflation and inward FDI stocks, education and globalization levels were also positive for the outward FDI, while the exchange rate and the economic freedom were negative. The economic freedom was also negative to the outward FDI for Kapuria-Foreman (2008), leading the author to argue that this variable need to be disaggregated to function properly, being its most relevant index the property rights.…”

“…After some studies unveiled the imperfect markets functioning, the economists' perception of other elements affecting the FDI grew (Amal et al, 2009). The institutions role is related to their ability to improve the markets' structure efficiency by reducing transaction and information costs and also the uncertainty and instability levels (Mudambi & Navarra, 2002;North, 1990).…”

Institutional Determinants of Outward Foreign Direct Investment from Emerging Economies

“…Amal et al (2009) argue that, besides the GDP, the inflation and inward FDI stocks, education and globalization exert a positive effect on outward FDI, while the exchange rate and the degree of economic freedom were negative. The economic freedom registered also a negative correlation with the outward FDI (Kapuria-Foreman, 2008), leading the author to argue that this variable needed to be disaggregated to function properly.…”