Foreign Direct Investment And The Business Environment In Developing Countries
- Topics:
- Foreign Direct Investment
- Tags:
- Currency & Foreign Exchange,
- Developing Country,
- Environment,
- Finance,
- Foreign Direct Investment,
- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI),
- Investment
- Source:
- Yale University
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Overview: The effects of Bilateral Investment Treaties on FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) and the domestic business environment remain unexplored despite the proliferation of treaties over the past several years. This paper asks whether BITs (Bilateral Investment Treaties) stimulate FDI flows to host countries, and if the treaties have any impact on the environment for domestic private investment. We find a very weak positive relationship between BITs and FDI. We also find a weak positive relationship between BITs and the domestic investment environment. Thus, BITs do not appear to impose costs on low- and moderate-income countries, but they also seem to have little positive effect either on foreign investment or on outside investors' perception of the investment environment.
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Format: PDF | Size: 371KB | Date: Jan 2005 | Pages: 67
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