Openness, foreign direct investment, interest rate, inflation rate and their impact on economic growth / Siti Atifah Izyani Abdul Hamid

This study was focusing in the development of growth in ASEAN. The study likely to analyse the impact of several factor in the economic which is openness, foreign direct investment, interest rate and inflation rate as the explanatory variable while gross domestic product as the dependent variable. The objective of the study is to analyse the relation between all the explanatory variables and the gross domestic product in the positive and negative sight. Then, it also use to identify the major forces that will affect the changes in the gross domestic product. Additionally, it also important uses the result to compare with the theories that leave behind by the economists. Beside, it also the reasons behind this study also to clarify the use of foreign direct investment in the growth of the ASEAN countries.