Does foreign direct investment cause long run economic growth? Evidence from the Latin American and the Caribbean countries

Olajide Oladipo

International Economics and Economic Policy, 2013, vol. 10, issue 4, 569-582

Abstract: The empirical evidence about the temporal precedence between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in open developing economies is mixed. In this research effort, we explored the FDI-growth nexus for 16 developing countries of Latin American and the Caribbean countries during the last three decades, a period in which many of these countries introduced various economic and financial reforms. As a departure from many previous studies, the current analysis uses the Granger noncausality test procedure recently developed by Toda and Yamamoto (J Econ 66:225–250, 1995 ), and Dolado and Lutkepohl (Econ Rev 15:369–386, 1996 )–TYDL. Our results suggest that the null hypothesis that ‘FDI does not Granger cause economic growth’ is rejected for all countries except Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica. There is also evidence of unidirectional causality from growth to FDI for all countries except Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Jamaica. We found bidirectional causality for Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

Keywords: FDI; Economic Growth; Granger non-Causality; Toda-Yamamoto and Dolado-Lutkepohl (TYDL); Latin American and Caribbean (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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