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Item Foreign Direct Investment and its impact on Economic Growth(UMT, Lahore, 2018) Saad Bin KhalidThe purpose of this study is to examine the impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth. The study focuses on whether foreign direct investment has a relationship with economic growth or do other variables like remittances, exports and imports have impact on economic growth in case of Pakistan. This is found through empirical estimations using ARDL approach, cointegration test and unit root tests. The period of the study is from 1977 to 2015 on annual basis retrieved from World Bank and IMF. The findings of the study suggested that there is a positive statistically significant relationship between the economic growth and foreign direct investment. Furthermore, remittances also have positive impact on the GDP per capita in the long run and short run.