TANMIYAT AL-RAFIDAIN

Abstract

Abstract

The present study endeavors to analyze the relations between direct foreign investment and sustainable development indicator and the measurement. It contains three sectors namely: primary, industrial and public services. It also includes different sub-sectors whose data have been collected from international investment reports. This research covers the period 1987 - 2003 which is, as we believe, suitable enough for the purpose of the research. It highlights direct investment fact according to the variables of sustainable development and direct foreign investment. In this study, multiple regression analysis and cluster analysis models are used to measure the influence of explanatory variable which represents the above mentioned main sectors besides the sub-sectors, on the dependent variables (such as the quality of Co2 emission… etc).
Moreover, the research tackles the essential economic sectors according to the size of direct foreign investment flow merger process towards polluting and depleting natural resources. What’s more there are flows towards unpolluted and depleted sectors. This research ends with several recommendations aiming at activating direct foreign investment towards the realization of sustainable development variables in most countries all over the world especially developing countries.

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