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Showing 1 to 20 of 405 for “"Foreign direct investment"”.
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Foreign direct investment and corruption
… gain. Corruption is perceived as detrimental to investment as it acts like a tax on investment by increasing the cost of doing business. However, the efficient grease hypothesis argues that corruption could increase investment as it acts as grease money that enables firms to avoid bureaucratic …
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Aid-Foreign Direct Investment Linkages: A Case Study of Aid and Foreign Direct Investment in Uganda.
… SSA in particular have received large inflows of foreign aid. In fact, According to Easterly (2007), Western donors have provided some $2.3 trillion dollars of development assistance over the period from independence in the 1950s/60s to the present; yet with a few exceptions, they are generally …
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Foreign direct investment and neighbouring influences
… NEPAD initiatives, and given the advantages of foreign direct investment (FDI) to developing countries, the aim of this study is to evaluate the influences of a number of economic and socio-political determinants of a host country in attracting FDI. It also includes an assessment of the …
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Modelling foreign direct investment in China
… While China has received an increasing amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) and become the second largest host country for FDI in recent years, the absence of comprehensive studies on FDI inflows into this country drives this research. In the first study, an econometric model is developed to …
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Trade, technology, and foreign direct investment
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1992.
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Nuances of corruption and foreign direct investment
… expand our understanding of the determinants of foreign Direct Investment by developing more nuanced versions of corruption as well as conducting our research both at the individual and group source country level. We breakdown down corruption into four indices. First, corruption is defined as …
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Foreign direct investment – a behavioural finance approach
… of corporate decision making regarding foreign direct investments (FDI) by applying two behavioural finance concepts, home bias and herding, to the analysis of FDI flows. I contribute to the literature by empirically testing for home bias and herding in an FDI context using a very broad …
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Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Sahara Africa.
… the current and potential role of inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the economic development of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It is motivated by the recent rise of inward FDI from both developed and developing countries into SSA, considering the attendant impact of foreign ownership on …
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Insuring foreign direct investment against political risk
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Multiproduct firms and outward foreign direct investment
This paper investigates the relationship between internationalisation of firms and the firm's domestic product scope. The investigation is applied to Indian firms. Thus, the insights of a new dataset is added to the growing (but still infant) literature in this field. Indian firms that invest …
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Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Malawi
… study examines empirically the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Malawi, by employing annual data that covered the period 1970-2016. The study used a dynamic model, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag bounds-testing approach to co-integration and error correction model, to explore …
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Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Malawi
… study examines empirically the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Malawi, by employing annual data that covered the period 1970-2016. The study used a dynamic model, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag bounds-testing approach to co-integration and error correction model, to explore …
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Essays on Foreign Direct Investment, Agglomeration and Productivity
<p>This dissertation investigates the role of foreign direct investment and agglomeration economies in the process of industrial development, with a focus on the productivity of manufacturing firms. The first chapter analyzes the importance of the source of foreign direct investment on the …
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Technology transfer to China through foreign direct investment
No abstract available.
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Determinants of foreign direct investment in MENA region.
… investigates empirically the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The empirical analysis of this thesis conducted at three different levels, intra-regional level, country-level and firm-level. Chapter five …
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Foreign direct investment and economic growth in Africa
Abstract Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a valuable source of external finance to complement domestic savings, enhance domestic investment and increase employment in developing countries. It can potentially promote long-term growth and development through knowledge and technology transfers from …
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Outward foreign direct investment : the case of Taiwan
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1984.
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Foreign Direct Investment, Regional Integration Agreements and Economic Growth.
… growth: regional integration agreements (RIAs), foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade. We employ the well-known gravity model as the empirical framework in which to analyse the interplay between these three factors. We also conduct a case study analysis of Mexico; this allows us to further …
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Determinants of foreign direct investment in Vietnam 1988-2009
This thesis analyses the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam from 1988-2009. It examines the nature, motivation and impact of FDI upon the Vietnam economy and its contribution to the subsequent leap forward in economic growth. The focus is on developing Dunning’s eclectic theory …
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