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paper is to find point the reasons of the foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa. Africa's FDI inflows are highly …Africa is in competition for international capital and resources and is currently ranked in the same category as Latin … with special reference to Africa. The rise of India and China in Africa is seen in the current years. The purpose of this …
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. Double bootstrap and truncated regression results show that improvements in governance, promotion of FDI, and information …
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We investigate the relative long run growth impact of each of the two main types of Africa's private capital inflows …, namely Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Cross-Border Bank Lending (CROSSBANK). In addition to controlling for some factors …) all the African economies except the SANE (South Africa, Algeria, Nigeria and Egypt), which are considered Africa's growth …
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Economic rationale for granting special incentives for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is based on the … belief that FDI bridges the 'idea gaps' between rich and the poor. Empirical literature however finds controversial, the … effects of FDI on productivity growth. This paper contributes to the existing studies by applying the rho's rank correlation …
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reduction) in Africa. Using FDI net inflows per capita and the United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Index as … and poverty reduction in Africa but find significant differences among African regions. We also find that FDI has a … between FDI and poverty reduction is positive and significant for economic communities in Central and East Africa, it is non …
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Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition … of outward FDI on domestic investment in developing countries. Using data from 121 developing and transition economies … over the period 1990–2010, the results suggest that FDI outflows negatively impact the rate of domestic investment. …
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The paper shows that Asia's degree of financial integration, both with the world and within the region remains low by various measures. The paper also provides empirical evidence that greater financial integration can support economic rebalancing in statistically meaningful ways. The implication...
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This paper presents the primary institutions and economic policies that have led to Chile’s remarkable record of stability and growth over the past twenty years. The core of this policy stance is the combination of fiscal discipline and an open trade policy regime, together with carefully...
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This paper examines the role financial markets play in the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and … markets allow agents to take advantage of knowledge spillovers from FDI, magnifying the output effects of FDI. Empirically, we … show that well-developed financial markets allow significant gains from FDI, while FDI alone plays an ambiguous role in …
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This paper summarizes recent arguments/findings on two aspects of foreign direct investment (FDI): its correlation with … economic growth and its determinants. The first part focuses on recent literature regarding positive spillovers from FDI while … the second deals with the determinants of FDI. The paper finds that while substantial support exists for positive …
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