Trends in FDI and its role in Development and Convergence

Lucian Albu ()

Working Papers of Institute for Economic Forecasting from Institute for Economic Forecasting

Abstract: The empirical study is based on 138 countries (and territories) for which there are available comparable data regarding FDI at UNCTAD, FDI/MNE database (www.unctad.org/fdistatistics) for 2000-2017. In order to analyse the relations between FDI and GDP per capita and the socalled Real Convergence, usually evaluated only based on expressing GDP per capita in international dollars PPP (Purchasing Power Parity), data for the global economy (represented by the group of 138 countries and territories, as W138), are for the period 2000-2018 from World Bank, and for the period up to 2024 from IMFforecast (IMF Report,April 2019).

Keywords: FDI; convergence; growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C50 F43 O11 O50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2019-06
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