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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"FDI inflows"”.
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The relationship between corruption, ease of doing business and FDI inflows in SADC countries
… have positioned Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as a development imperative for many developing countries, including Southern African Development Community (SADC) economies. Despite concerted efforts both at individual country level and at regional level, FDI flows to the SADC region have …
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Catalytic effects of IMF agreements on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in sub-Saharan Africa
… will facilitate foreign capital investments or FDI inflows from multinational corporations and or foreign investors. Through empirical observations, and using a two-stage modelling technique, this research tested and examined this hypothesis. It empirically showed that SSA countries that had IMF …
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Foreign direct investment: causes and consequences. The determinants of inward and outward FDI and their relationship with economic growth
… are the major sources and recipients of world FDI and current studies relating to developed countries using aggregate country FDI data are limited. This study empirically tests the determinants of FDI inflows and outflows and their relationship with economic growth using 2SLS simultaneous …
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The relationship between infrastructure and foreign investment inflows to South Africa
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has emerged as a major source of external capital for developing countries in Asia, South and Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa. However, Sub-Saharan Africa's share of global FDI compares unfavourably with that garnered by other developing regions in the world. …
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China's success in FDI: Why South Africa can learn from it
… 1978, the growth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into China has been dramatic. The massive FDI inflows greatly benefited China's economy and contributed to its steady and rapid economic growth. Most FDI empirical studies use panel data as it solves the problem of data limitation, but it also …
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The Investment Casualties of War: Global Impacts of Armed Conflict on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows
… conflict on global foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows using two measures of conflict intensity: Large conflicts or ‘wars’, with 1000 or more battle-related deaths and small conflicts, between 25-999 battle related deaths in a given year. Throughout the sample, I find that large conflicts …
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Determinants and impacts of inward FDI in Japan
… country characteristics affect the aggregate FDI inflows in the Japanese economy during the period of 1989-2002. Our results demonstrate that the stable investment climate of the home country is an essential factor indicating FDI inflows to Japan. By contrast, the export performance of the …
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Foreign direct investment and corruption
… finds that corruption is deleterious for FDI inflows in developed countries, but is somewhat beneficial for attracting FDI inflows in developing economies. However, when developing countries are disaggregated into several regions, the effect of corruption on FDI inflows fades away. …
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Attracting Foreign Direct Investment to Countries of Latin America: A Comparative Study The Cases of Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba
<p>Foreign Direct Investment: FDI) brings benefits to host countries' populations, using job creation, opportunities for education, training, and technology. The host country benefits from FDI inflows, improving its economy, introducing new technology, organizational and managerial skills that help …
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The threat of expropriation in commercial contracts entered into with states : lessons from the case of Lap Green Networks of Libya and the Zambian government
Foreign direct investment (FDI) continues to be made into Africa, as an important means of strengthening the national economies of the various countries in which it is undertaken. However, while FDI inflows continue into these economies, there has been a relative decline in FDI attractiveness into …
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Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Zambia: a bivariate causality link between FDI and GDP.
… natural to argue that foreign direct investment (FDI) can evince great advantages to host countries among which is GDP growth, technological transfer, knowledge transfer and sustainable benefits such as employment creation, empirical investigations are all the more necessary to ascertain any such …
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Inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth in Zambia: a bivariate causality link between FDI and GDP.
… natural to argue that foreign direct investment (FDI) can evince great advantages to host countries among which is GDP growth, technological transfer, knowledge transfer and sustainable benefits such as employment creation, empirical investigations are all the more necessary to ascertain any such …
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The impact of government debt on foreign direct investment in Zambia
… destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on the other hand. The study sought to answer the question, can a country that is highly indebted attract meaningful FDI inflows that would spur economic growth? The research looked at a period of ten (10) years from 2010 to 2020 and …
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Regional and Firm Level Determinants of International Competitiveness: An Examination of SME’s Role, Capability and Competencies
… investment (via Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)) inflows and through the development of enterprise and in particular the enhancement of the small firm in international markets. The theme that runs through the thesis is one of competitiveness and competence. The competence of the region to …
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The Impact of Offcial Development Assistance on Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Vietnam
… relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Official Development Assistance (ODA) has not been fully established, nor has its directionality, as evidenced the disagreement among economists. Using existing literature as starting point, I extend its base by examining key causal …
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The Role of Aid for Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in Poverty Reduction: A Panel Data Analysis of 91 Developing Countries
… poverty. Specifically, the impact of AFT and FDI is analyzed across different income groups of countries and between agricultural-dependent economies and non-agricultural dependent-economies. This thesis also evaluates the impact of the different components of AFT on poverty as well as …
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Region-wise spillover effects from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is considered as a key element in the industrial development of a nation. It brings capital inflow and contributes to the development of technology, managerial skills, and domestic firms. Multinational corporations (MNCs) possess superior knowledge, patents, …
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AN examination of the casual relationship between economic growth, foreign direct investment and exports, in Namibia
… between economic growth, exports, and FDI in Namibia using quarterly data for the period of 1980:Q1 to 2013:Q4. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag approach to cointegration was used to carry out the study. The study used foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows as a proxy for FDI, export …
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The role of institutional systems and government policy in securing inward foreign direct investment in Kuwait. The impact of institutional and government policy systems on the inward foreign direct investment decision in Kuwait
… is to encourage Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows, which aids diversification by the transfer of technology, the creation of new employment opportunities, and the adoption of modern management practices. The Gulf Council Cooperation (GCC) countries recognised the necessity and benefits …
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