Foreign Direct Investment in the Contemporary World with a Focus on Kazakhstan

Dana Agidolla

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

Bachelor thesis is devoted to explaining the topic of Foreign Direct Investments in Kazakhstan. In addition, I find this issue to be significant and intriguing on a personal level since I was born and raised in Kazakhstan and thus, it helped me to gain more knowledge about my country and further projection of development. The author analysis the relationship between Foreign Direct Investments and Economic growth for the time period of 2000 up to 2021. The author bases the research on statistical analysis with the model that includes dependent variables and independent variables. The author tests how Foreign Direct Investments impact the economic wealth of Kazakhstan. However, additionally, the author analyzes how macroeconomic determinants impact the foreign direct investments inflow in Kazakhstan, especially, Inflation rate, Exchange rate and Corruption Index. The proposed hypothesis will be mentioned in the Chapter – 1.2. The theoretical part demonstrates how the above-mentioned variables related to the foreign direct investments. In the empirical part, the author analyzes the relationship between “Inflation rate” and FDI’s, “Exchange rate” and FDI’s and “Corruption Index” and FDI’s. The time series is taken from 2010 up to 2021. Eventually, the author draws a conclusion based on the results of the statistical analysis.

Keywords

economy, economic development, foreign direct investments, inflow, Kazakhstan

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 19. 3. 2023

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 6. 2. 2024
• Supervisor: doc. Ing. Karel Tomšík, Ph.D.
• Reader: Tomáš Hlavsa, Ph.D.

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Bachelor programme:
Economics and Management