FDI from Developing Countries : A Vector for Trade and Development Koreas experience with outward foreign direct investment (FDI) demonstrates that the ancillary benefits of such investment knowledge and management transfer market acquisition and skills enhancement can be substantial for individual firms. Moreover the resulting increased robustness of these enterprises contributes to the strength and stability of the economy as a whole. While it is true that inward FDI carries similar benefits outward FDI driven by the prerogatives of the domestic company is integrated into existing business plans and strategies and therefore constitutes a mo