Purpose: The paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment on unemployment in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses annual data spanning from 1990 to 2020 and employed the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) estimation technique. Findings: The paper found that...

Cultural and linguistic affinities have been studied in international business through the gravity model and economics of language. International investment theories enable the assessment of organisational, location, and internalisation motivations. The present study assesses the impact of...

This study was conducted with the aim of examining the role of financial development in the impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth. The interesting point of this study is expressed through the effort to determine the level of financial development to maximize the spillover...

This research revisits the issue of economic growth determinants in developing countries with a focus on international integration variables. Four alternative variables are tested, namely, export growth, trade openness, export diversification, and foreign direct investment (FDI), in a single...

The current study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on the growth of Namibia's economy from 1990 to 2020 using the ARDL cointegration method. The results reveal that FDI, the interactive variable of FDI and trade openness, and other macroeconomic variables such as domestic...

The main objective of this study is to empirically investigate the impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth of Ethiopia by using a time series data for the period 1992-2019. Other explanatory variables like trade openness, human capital, national saving and gross capital formation...