Publications - Working Papers IER SAS

Foreign direct investments play a key role in economic performance of the Slovak economy and in its future development. In the first part of this paper we focus on development of FDI inflows in Slovakia in context of the Central and Eastern European countries, on the FDI posi-tion, their sector and regional structure. Then we deal with factors of FDI inflows in SR and effects of these investments on the economy. In the final chapter we identify barriers of even more positive effects of FDI on the economy and explain why overcoming these barriers is important not only from the view of attractiveness of the country for foreign investors but also (and particularly) from the view of the overall future economic development of Slovakia.