FDI, Education, And Economic Growth: Quality Matters (Foreign Direct Investment ‪)‬

Introduction The past few decades have seen a dramatic increase in world foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational corporations (MNCs), with an annual average growth rate of world FDI inflows over 20% in the 1980s, and nearly 40% by the late 1990s. Although the growth rate of FDI slowed down in the 2000s, it still maintained an annual average growth rate of 15% between 2001 and 2007 (United Nations, various issues).