Foreign Investment in Developing Countries: Does it Crowd in Domestic Investment?

Manuel R. Agosin, Ricardo Mayer , United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) , 2000

This paper assesses the extent to which foreign direct investment in developing countries crowds in or crowds out domestic investment. We develop a theoretical model of investment that includes an FDI variable and we proceed to test it with panel data for the period 1970–1996 and the two subperiods 1976–1985 and 1986–1996. The model is run for three developing regions (Africa, Asia and Latin America).

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