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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH OF PAKISTAN
Author(s) -
Rummana Zaheer,
Shahana Kiramat
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of social sciences and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2664-4967
pISSN - 0257-4276
DOI - 10.46568/jssh.v58i1.132
Subject(s) - foreign direct investment , economics , liberalization , element (criminal law) , government (linguistics) , international economics , monetary economics , macroeconomics , market economy , political science , linguistics , philosophy , law
Although it is very common to argue that the foreign direct investment is beneficial for the economic development of a nation. This exploration investigates the connection amongst FDI and economic development in case of Pakistan. In this study secondary data from 1985 to 2016 is taken to examine the relationship. The investigation included GDP as explained and exports and FDI as explanatory variables. To check data either it is stationary or not the study used Augmented Dickey Fuller test in our study. After making data stationary we have used OLS method to investigate the nature of relationship between the variables. Our results show that there is direct link amongst explained and explanatory variable. The findings also show that there is significant relationship between FDI and economic growth. After analyzing the calculations we came to know that foreign direct investment is a significant element for the economic development because it has positive impact and have significant relation with growth of an economy. Since FDI is an impressive element in economic development so, government should take steps to attract the foreign investors and make policies to encourage the trade liberalization to gain more from the foreign investment.

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