The Success Of Attracting Fdi Of Vietnam

According to Moosa (2002), “Hymer (1976) organized the industrial organization hypothesis. Kindleberger (1969), Caves (1982) and Dunning (1988) further explained the hypothesis. This theory assumes that the firms when it establishes an enterprizes in another country it suffers from many disadvantages in comparison to local investors. The cultural aspects, languages, legal system and other factors play an important role in determining FDI. But there is increase in FDI. The theory explains about why firms invest in foreign countries. But the theory fails to explain the motivation for choosing the locations. This theory explains the expansion of FDI is due to capital, management, technology, marketing, and access to raw materials, economies of

Statistical and empirical analysis is something that is very valuable despite the application and system in question. This is true when the variables and facts are fairly straightforward and simple and it also holds true when the systems involved are very complex and large in nature. The latter is clearly the case when it comes to the impact and result of direct foreign investment in a given country. Such will be the point of empirical analysis for this report and the country that shall be used for the

Ajami and BarNiv (1984) attempted to explain the variability of FDI across countries. They emphasized in following determinants of FDI in US: relative size of the US market, change in exports to the US, growth of GNP in the home and host countries, decline in value of the US dollar during the late 1970s, inflation rates in the home and host countries, attractiveness of the US capital markets and research and development and manufacturing as a percent of GNP.

Vietnam is 12th nation in the world with more population and its economic growth is expected to keep increasing in the following years. Thanks to the Doi Moi economic reforms since 1994 the country’s GDP is the third in growth rate in Asia, the inflation has decreased from 775% to 14% and the FDI is everyday more important.

Many scholars argue inward FDI have positive economic impacts on the host country (Buckley et al., 2007; Globerman, 1979; Lipsey and Sjöholm, 2004; Nguyen and Nguyen, 2007; Zhu and Tan, 2000). According to them, there is a causal relationship between FDI and economic growth, where FDI stimulates economic growth. Nguyen and Nguyen (2007) state FDI promotes economic growth and is also a tool to attract FDI. The literature by Anwar and Sun (2011) shows FDI and domestic capital have a significant positive impact on economic growth. Thus, FDI has a positive impact on the economic growth of the host country.

FDI grew quickly in the 1990’s. The U.S is the top destination of FDI and China and Brazil are in top five. The reasons for the increased activity were the opening of markets due to trade liberalisation and deregulation, pressure of competition brought about globalisation and technological changes, the importance of size as a factor in creating economies of scale and the desire to strengthen market position.

To attract FDI, corporate tax incentives has been used worldwide, as FDI significantly boost up the productivity and the growth of economic. The reason why China has become the most attractive destination of FDI is that its FDI policies, huge labour supply and low cost of it, stable economic and political environment. (Deng et al., 2007). FDI inflows into China

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is taken as one of the key factor of rapid economic growth and development. FDI, it is believed to stimulate domestic investment, human capital, and transfers technology. It is associated qualities which causes the faster economic development in the host countries. South Korea, for instance had one of the of the poorest economies during 1960s, but yet

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) improved from 6.5% of the world’s GDP in 1980 to 31.8% in 2006.

The focus of this research is examining the affects of foreign direct investment on economic growth. Then the research reached this question: How Does Foreign Direct Investment Effects On Host Country’s GDP (Economic Growth)? Firstly, research starting with discussing the potential of FDI to affect host country’s economic growth and argues that two important objectes for FDI affects on economic growth, inflows of physical capital and technology spillovers, and according to research the technology spillovers have the stronger effect to enhance economic growth in the host country. Using cross section analysis with the range of ten years the empirical part of the paper reached a conclusion that FDI inflows improve economic growth

The main determinants are openness to trade and political stability in the study. The results show that FDI stimulates the economic growth but growth does not attract the foreign direct investment. In fact the openness trade and political stability are the significant determinants.

(01)Size of the Market- Econometric studies comparing a cross section of countries indicate a well- established correlation between FDI and the size of the market. Some studies found GDP growth rate to be a significant explanatory variables, while GDP was not, probably indicating that where the current size of

More than twothird of FDI is between TNC’s. Total revenues for the Global 500 TNCs in 2006 add up to $18.9 trillion, a third of the world 's GDP. 70,000 TNCs and their 6, 90, 000 foreign affiliates, contributing $19 trillion in sales, a third of world GDP, create major component of this FDI stock and worldwide FDI flows. GE (US), Vodafone (UK), and Ford (US) are the top three non-financial TNCs worldwide contributing maximum FDI flows. The global FDI in 2005 increased to $730 billion registering a growth of 18% over $648 billion of 2004. Of the total FDI flows, the developed world contributed $637 billion, out of which half is from only three countries-US, UK, and Luxemburg. In 2005 the net outflows from the developed world exceeded the inflows by $260 billion. For the US, the largest economy in the world with $ 12.5 trillion GDP, FDI outflow increased by 90% to $ 229 billion in 2005. The developing world FDI grew by 40% to $ 233 billion in 2004 mainly due to M&A activity and also due to green field FDI rising consecutively for the third year. Studies suggest that FDI flows by TNC’s have transformed international trade in the last two decades and created new giants and a new world order (Blonigen, 2005). For 2006-07, global FDI flows are expected to rise further if economic growth is consolidated and becomes widespread, corporate restructuring takes hold, profit growth persists and the pursuit of new markets continues (UNCTAD,

Many writers have tried to figure out if there is a direct link between Foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth of an economy in terms of Gross domestic product (GDP) but a reliable procedure hasn’t been found yet.

This study is focused on the two aspects: market-seeking FDI and resource-seeking FDI. These two aspects which influence the determination of FDI can be denominated by some numerical variables. In terms of market-seeking, GDP and the rate of inflation can be used to measure the market size and market growth respectively. The sum of exports and imports of goods and services indicates the openness of an economy, which also means the availability of access to regional and global markets. On the other hand, raw materials and human capital are the key elements for those resource-seeking enterprises. Thus, labour cost per worker in logs denotes human capital. With all the variables above, a specific regression model are able to build to investigate the research question.