Effectiveness of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth in Pakistan: A Policy Perspective Approach

Muhammad Waqas Chughtai ()
Additional contact information
Muhammad Waqas Chughtai: Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of Pakistan

Acta Universitatis Danubius. OEconomica, 2014, issue 10(4), 159-175

Abstract: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has significant impact on economic growth of developing countries like Pakistan for many decades. This paper has an objective to know the effects foreign direct investment on economic growth for the period from 1971-2013 by establishing empirical relation between business industries of primary, secondary and tertiary sector with FDI through Panel Cointegration and Granger Causality Framework for the specified period. The results show the significance of FDI and economic growth with proxies of GDP with the evidence of cointegration between these variables. The results also present long term causality between FDI and GDP while two-way causality if found under short run. Overall sectoral level, there is positively significance is identified between FDI and GDP. The policy Implications are also discussed in the paper showing that efficient and effective utilization of FDI.

Keywords: economic development; FDI Inflow; GDP; growth policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://journals.univ-danubius.ro/index.php/oeconomica/article/view/2410/2187 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:dug:actaec:y:2014:i:4:p:159-175

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Acta Universitatis Danubius. OEconomica from Danubius University of Galati Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Daniela Robu ().