Influence of Foreign Direct Investment in Brazilian economy: an analyze by economy’s sectors

Abstract

The major purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of Foreign Direct Investment’s (FDI) entrance in the several Brazilian economies’ sectors. In order to this, are observed the global flow of FDI, the Brazilian legislation that regulates the FDI’s entrance, such as the historical context that has influenced the FDI’s inflows in Brazil. Then it is analyzed the entrance of FDI and the growth of Brazilian’s Economy sectors, between year 2000 and 2008, observing if there is a direct relations between them. Finally, contends that the two analyzed factors are connected, but the national economy’s growth influences more in the entrance of FDI then the opposite, and also are shown others factors that influences the FDI entrance and the intern growth, suggesting more national investments in order to attract more FDI to enlarge the international commerce and obtain more technology development.