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New Zealand – Report

1.0 Introduction

Throughout the production of this report I will aim to explain an analysis of the costs and benefits of foreign direct investment for New Zealand both in theoretical and empirical terms. When it comes to defining FDI different countries may define it differently and because of this it is arbitrary, but foreign direct investment can be described as:

"Foreign Direct Investment is the purchase by the investors or corporations of one country of non-financial assets in another country. This involves a flow of capital from one country to another to build a factory, purchase a business or buy real estate." (http://www.afsc.org/trade-matters/learn-about/glossary.htm).

In New Zealand foreign direct investment plays a pivotal part in the country's economy growth, this is shown by the fact that over the past two decades the flow of F.D.I in New Zealand has increased substantially and that FDI stocks have risen from around NZ$ 300 million in......

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