The research on the factors that influence foreign direct investment (FDI) has ignored the role of population of acountry. Such neglect seems to be motivated by the theoretical support for the assumption that large population islikely to be negatively related to economic growth. Based on a review of the latest research on the role ofpopulation in economic growth and the determinants of FDI, it was hypothesized that a country’s populationwould be positively related to FDI. The data from 56 African and Asian countries supported the hypothesis.
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