THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ON MYANMAR ECONOMY

Abstract

This thesis is to study the contribution of foreign direct investment on Myanmar economy. This paper highlights the implementation of the foreign direct investment in Myanmar economy during the period to 2015. The result shows that the level of FDI is still low in order to promote economic growth for Myanmar. Some other factors as the resources and employment which can promote to FDI. Therefore, the Myanmar government has to play the key role of employment promotion to attract investments from abroad. Regional integration has become prominent aiming to be the development region. This is because in recent literatures have been drawn to the impact of FDI for the host economies by increasing the volume of investments and / or its efficiency. This thesis shows that FDI in Myanmar has less discouraged the economic growth of Myanmar over the study period. The possible reason could be its own nature of FDI, the situation of host country economy and the external factors.