The relationship between economic growth and foreign direct investment in Malaysia: based on location advantage channel

Foreign direct investment is an important indicator to boost the economic growth of Malaysia. Foreign direct investment was identified as a medium in order to acquire skills, knowledge, technologies and to internationalize business and at the same time to reduce debts of a nation. However, in the ye...

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Main Author:	Derrick Tanggapan
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	HC Economic history and conditions
Online Access:	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/11828/1/mt0000000651.pdf
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spelling	my-ums-ep.118282017-11-07T07:21:37Z The relationship between economic growth and foreign direct investment in Malaysia: based on location advantage channel 2012 Derrick Tanggapan HC Economic history and conditions Foreign direct investment is an important indicator to boost the economic growth of Malaysia. Foreign direct investment was identified as a medium in order to acquire skills, knowledge, technologies and to internationalize business and at the same time to reduce debts of a nation. However, in the year 2009, inflow of FDI into Malaysia had decline as much as 81.13 percent. McKern (1996), Kathuria (1998, 2000 and 2001) and Noorbakhsh et al. (2001) believed that FOI does not take place automatically in a nation. Whereby, inflow of FOI should be encouraged. Hence, this study aims to identify the channels that can influence economic growth through FOI in Malaysia. Location advantage channels were group using human capital development, financial development and environmental condition whilst FDI was used as an interaction as well as an Independent variable. The findings of the analysis clearly indicated that when FDI was used as an interaction with each location advantage channels, the interaction become insignificant in explaining the changes in economic growth. Thus, the study support that a certain value of location advantage channels were important to stimulate economic growth through inflow of FOI in Malaysia. 2012 Thesis https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/11828/ https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/11828/1/mt0000000651.pdf text en public masters Universiti Malaysia Sabah School of Business and Economics
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description	Foreign direct investment is an important indicator to boost the economic growth of Malaysia. Foreign direct investment was identified as a medium in order to acquire skills, knowledge, technologies and to internationalize business and at the same time to reduce debts of a nation. However, in the year 2009, inflow of FDI into Malaysia had decline as much as 81.13 percent. McKern (1996), Kathuria (1998, 2000 and 2001) and Noorbakhsh et al. (2001) believed that FOI does not take place automatically in a nation. Whereby, inflow of FOI should be encouraged. Hence, this study aims to identify the channels that can influence economic growth through FOI in Malaysia. Location advantage channels were group using human capital development, financial development and environmental condition whilst FDI was used as an interaction as well as an Independent variable. The findings of the analysis clearly indicated that when FDI was used as an interaction with each location advantage channels, the interaction become insignificant in explaining the changes in economic growth. Thus, the study support that a certain value of location advantage channels were important to stimulate economic growth through inflow of FOI in Malaysia.
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author	Derrick Tanggapan
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title	The relationship between economic growth and foreign direct investment in Malaysia: based on location advantage channel
title_short	The relationship between economic growth and foreign direct investment in Malaysia: based on location advantage channel
title_full	The relationship between economic growth and foreign direct investment in Malaysia: based on location advantage channel
title_fullStr	The relationship between economic growth and foreign direct investment in Malaysia: based on location advantage channel
title_full_unstemmed	The relationship between economic growth and foreign direct investment in Malaysia: based on location advantage channel
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granting_institution	Universiti Malaysia Sabah
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The relationship between economic growth and foreign direct investment in Malaysia: based on location advantage channel

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