Kalaichevi Ravinthirakumaran

Research

The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment Spillover Effects on Total Factor Productivity in Sri Lanka

Article June 10, 2020

This paper examines whether FDI generates productivity spillovers in Sri Lanka, using the annual data over the period from 1978 to 2015. The autoregressive distributed lag model has been estimated to investigate the effects of FDI, research and development, human capital, international trade, technological gap, rate of inflation, population growth and civil war on total factor productivity (TFP). The results reveal that FDI positively influences TFP