In their study over the impact of the foreign investments over the local communities, Figlio and Bloningen (2000) have shown that foreign investment has considerably different effects on
local communities than does domestic investment: foreign plants tend to significantly increase
wages paid to workers in an industry in a local community, and also lead to substantially lower per
capita government budgets inducing changes in local government budget allocations. These results
allow consideration of the foreign direct investments as an important resource for the sustainable
development of the local communities and support the initiatives of the local communities to
promote themselves in order to attract foreign investors and to penetrate international markets.