Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Foreign Direct Investments in Developed and Developing Countries

In recent years changes in direction of foreign direct investments (FDI) started to attract more attention of economists. In this paper FDI as a factor of economic growth is investigated. In the first part was analyzed the correlation between foreign direct investment inflows and dynamics of gross domestic product growth. Data for analysis was provided by World Bank database of economic statistics. Based on this data the correlation between absolute values of GDP and FDI was calculated for two groups of countries differentiated by the level of their development. The second part was based on analysis of the link between FDI inflows and World Bank's Ease of doing business indicators in the OECD and BRICS countries.