The Analysis of Indicators of doing business and Foreign Direct Investment: A time series analysis for Pakistan

Abstract

For many developing countries foreign direct investment is very important for the development of economies. The level of FDI for Pakistan is always remained low is compared to other developing Nations who are leading the world. It is also important to notice that to analyze the impact of various parameters which are used for starting in ease of doing business on FDI in Pakistan. At the analysis of ease of doing business indicators it was done to check how the environmental has been changing since 2012 to 2022. This time series data analysis is done for the period of 2012 to 2022 which impacted the multi-currency analysis for Pakistani Nation. Here regression model is run for status statistical software which transform the data and 4 indicators were significantly impacting on the FDI flows in Pakistan. This research also indicated that the contracts, taxes, electricity bills and permits having some significant impact on the FDI flows in economy.