THE CONTRIBUTION OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS TO PERFORMANCE AND COMPETITIVENESS GROWTH OF RECEIVERS COUNTRIES

Attracting the direct foreign investments represents one of the economic systems' priorities, both at the microeconomic and macroeconomic level. The typology, the particularities and objectives of these investment processes determined certain transformations on worldwide level of the financial flows, a significant growth being observed at the level of the emerging countries. The objective of the present paper is the identification and quantitative and qualitative analysis, based on statistic information, on the contribution of the direct foreign investments to the performance of the countries in Central and Eastern Europe.