Despite vast natural resources and geographic advantages in the Asia-Pacific region, foreign direct investment ( FDI ) in the Philippines was ranked among the lowest in the region for the past 30 years. Some challenges, including high-level public corruption, low economic development and the government’s inability to establish a good business environment, are seen to have reduced FDI . Moreover, the Philippines still remains lagging in the South East Asian region in terms of FDI despite recent developments, such as good GDP figures and the reforms put in place by President Benigno Simeon Aquino III . This may imply an interval between the reforms made and their impact on FDI . Thus, this study investigates the lagged effects of the government’s anti-corruption stance, reforms undertaken to facilitate business and economic growth on FDI in the Philippines. In the process, it draws on both qualitative and quantitative data: The latter utilises an auto-regressive distributed lagged model to find possible time intervals on the impact of variables with each other, while the former provides support through a narration of historical developments, trends and explanations rooted on theoretical foundations.

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反腐败、商业环境和经济增长对菲律宾外商直接投资的滞后影响

尽管亚太地区拥有丰富的自然资源和地理优势，但在过去 30 年中，菲律宾的外国直接投资 (FDI) 位居该地区最低之列。一些挑战，包括高层公共腐败、低经济发展和政府无法建立良好的商业环境，被视为减少了外国直接投资。此外，尽管最近的发展，例如良好的 GDP 数据和总统贝尼尼奥·西蒙·阿基诺三世实施的改革，菲律宾在外国直接投资方面仍然落后于东南亚地区。这可能意味着所进行的改革与其对 FDI 的影响之间存在一定的间隔。因此，本研究调查了政府反腐败立场的滞后效应，为促进菲律宾外国直接投资的商业和经济增长而进行的改革。在这个过程中，它同时借鉴了定性和定量数据：后者利用自回归分布式滞后模型来寻找变量相互影响的可能时间间隔，而前者通过对历史发展、趋势的叙述提供支持和基于理论基础的解释。