Abstract:

The issue of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has become a natural part of the market economy in today's globalized world. Foreign investments help to develop the economy because they affect the growth of labor productivity and provide the new financial capital. FDI provides live new technological know-how and thus contributes to increasing knowledge of economy. Their entry into the selected region is to reduce regional disparities. The aim of this document was to make comparison of the impact of FDI on economic development regions in the Czech and Slovak Republic. And furthermore, to assess the impact of FDI, correlation coefficient was used, which was investigated by means of interdependence between FDI and the GDP and FDI and the unemployment rate. The last part of this paper devotes to measuring of regional disparities by point method.