Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Albania

• Authors: Ylvije Kraja Boriçi , Elezi Osmani
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Since the 1980s, foreign direct investment inflow (FDI) has grown significantly in most developing countries while pertaining Alania, foreign direct investment has started after the 1990s. A lot of developing countries have made policies aimed at reducing FDI barriers. Foreign capital globalization, particularly FDI inflow is increased significantly in developing countries, due to the fact that FDI is the most stable and prevalent component of foreign capital inflows (Adams, 2009) Foreign direct investments are a very important factor for the development of a country and Albania has still much to be done to encourage such investments, especially in the legislative framework. The authors are trying to give the answer to the question that how does foreign direct investment in the Albania affect the nation’s economy? The authors identify that foreign direct investment improves technology and has positive impact on economic growth. Because the overall theory is that FDI inflow enhances and sustains economic growth in the host country.

Keywords

EN

FDI foreign direct investment; inflow; European integration; government policy

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: ECONOMICS
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 27-32

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2015-12-30

Contributors

author

Ylvije Kraja Boriçi

• University of Shkodër “Luigj Gurakuqi”, Albania - Faculty of Economics

author

Elezi Osmani

• University of Shkodër “Luigj Gurakuqi”, Albania - Faculty of Economics

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/eoik-2015-0014