FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN EMERGING AND DEVELOPED
                     ECONOMIES


             Tatiana Dănescu, “Petru Maior” University, Târgu Mureş, Romania
               Paula Nistor, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iaşi, Romania

ABSTRACT: In the context of globalization, the issue of foreign direct investments and their
influence on the development of the emerging economies, continues to be a topic of interest for
many economic theories. The need, the importance and the effects of foreign direct
investments have attracted the attention of all the states and produced an intense competition
to attract the foreign capital. FDI inflows have a very important role in the establishment of
new world economic powers. In the world economy, the foreign direct investment are oriented
in major proportion to developed countries, but the interest in this type of investment is
particularly developed also in the emerging countries who need not only foreign capital
inflows, but also the modern managerial experience and access to markets. The aim of this
paper is to study and analyze the evolution of foreign direct investment in emerging and
developed economies in the last twenty years.

Key words: foreign direct investment, emerging economies, developed economies, financial crisis

JEL codes: F23, O4, O57, P45, M42