Foreign direct investment
Economic Growth
Human Capital
Open Trade.
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been viewed as a power affecting economic growth (EG) directly and indirectly
during the past few decades. This paper reviewed an amount of researches examining the relationships between FDI
and EG, especially the effects of FDI on EG, from 1994 up to 2012. The results show that the main finding of the
FDI-EG relation is significantly positive, but in some cases it is negative or even null. And within the relation, there
exist several influencing factors such as the adequate levels of human capital, the well-developed financial markets,
the complementarity between domestic and foreign investment and the open trade regimes, etc.