The study of financial development, foreign investment and economic growth interactions in Iran agricultural sector

Abstracts
This paper according to important role of domestic and foreign investment and also financial development on agricultural economic growth that considered Part of the economic infrastructure in each economy, use a simultaneous equations model that allows one to examine the interrelationship among economic growth, the foreign investment and domestic capital in agricultural sector in Iran by using 3sls and Generalized Method of moments. The empirical analysis is based on annual data for the period of 1357–1387. Results showed that the level of financial development has contributed to the growth of the domestic capital in Agriculture sector but its impact on economic growth is statistically insignificant. Foreign investment and domestic investment are complement In Iran agricultural sector and domestic investment increase to response of increasing in foreign investment and foreign investment is affected significantly by the level of domestic investment and production in this sector. Besides increasing in human capital don’t contribute with economic growth, but increasing government expenditure in this sector precipitation economic growth and affect domestic investment positively. Also policies that increase human capital in agriculture sector was quite unsatisfactory and may not contribute to the production of this sector, so recommended be reviewed, it also recommended that government spending on the agricultural sector should be planning to increase workforce efficiency.

JEL classification: E44, O11, O16.

Keywords: Foreign and domestic investment, Economic growth, Generalized Method of moments, Agriculture sector.