. We find a generally positive but weak effect of FDI on productivity growth. Meanwhile, the results do not support the …

having gained significant momentum in Africa and other emerging economies, textbooks and research publications on development …

, institutional quality reflected a negative effect on FDI inflows, implying that countries with low quality institutions would … struggle to attract inward FDI. The policy implications are that host countries’ policy makers should eliminate or reduce any …

study reveals a weak institutional effect on development in Africa. Also, the coefficients of political, economic and legal … study, also finds a non-significant relationship between overall institutions and development in Africa. The study advocates … development nexus in Africa …

. Particularly, in Africa, where stock markets experience low liquidity and less transparency, FDI can be an impetus for financial … in Africa. We also find that FDI contributes to economic growth in Africa after controlling for endogeneity between FDI …The literature on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI), financial market development (FMD) and …

China's increased trade with and investment in Africa have boosted the continent's economic growth but have also … generated considerable controversy. In this paper we investigate China's outward direct investment ODI in Africa using macro and … registered Chinese firms investing in Africa between 1998 and 2012. We use key words in project descriptions to code the …

In the 3 years before the 2008 Financial Crisis, GDP growth in sub Saharan Africa (averaged over individual economies … significant Chinese FDI flows into these countries, accounting for up to 10% of total inward FDI flows for certain countries in … inward FDI. We follow Solow (1957), Dennison (1962), and others and use data for individual economies between 1990 and 2008 …