Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth:A Case Study of Pakistan

Objectives of this research study were to know about the influence of various economic, social and political determinants of host country in enhancing FDI.Further, an attempt has been made to exploring the impacts of domestic investment, FDI, human capital and trade openness on economic growth.For analysis secondary data have been utilized over the time period from 1971 to 2005.Regression models have been used and the methods of Least Square, TSLS, and Generalized Method of Moment have been applied as analytical techniques for the empirical estimation. It has been argued that foreign capital inflow particularly in the form of FDI is likely to encourage national economic development in a host country by playing supportive role to local investment and by bringing many other benefits. Pakistan is a developing country and characterized by low per capita income, burden of external debt, lack of capital, low saving rate, rapid growth of population, and deficit in balance of payment etc. Domestic resources are short to finance the development needs of the country, therefore, FDI is one of the important sources of external finance for the economic growth and development of Pakistan.