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Foreign direct investment cannot be only the source of capital production (formation) but also can be more importantly be used as a tool of production technology. Skills, innovation facilities and manage mental and organizational contracts among the parties and reciprocally can act as a device for having access to international marketing network. This research is functional- developmental in terms of objective and based on collecting data and information is of descriptive and experimental type and in terms of implementing method is of measurement type as well. The research aimed to identify and prioritize the effective factors on the FDI absorption in Kurdistan province in 1394. Experts from the research statistical population  and the expert sampling method is non-randomly and available, In this research an effort has been made to identify and prioritize effective factors, on the FDI absorption in Kurdistan province using the AHP model and sensitivity analysis method. The results show that economic factors have already been of greatest importance in the province FDI absorption and subsequently political- social and natural factors. These factors such as exchange rate, capital return, energy, natural resources , economic infrastructures, taxes and investment security have the highest effect  and other variables such as economy openness, free trade and bureaucracy red line have the lowest effect on the province FDI absorption.

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foreign direct investment hierarchical analysis model sensitivity analysis Kurdistan province

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Sokhanvar , M. ., & Mahmoodi, N. . (2015). Identifying and prioritizing the influential factors in the absorption of foreign direct investment the AHP model (Case Study: Kurdistan Province. Environment Conservation Journal, 16(SE), 239–246. https://doi.org/10.36953/ECJ.2015.SE1627

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