Does globalization affect growth? Evidence from a new index of globalization

A Dreher - Applied economics, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
The study develops an index of globalization covering its three main dimensions: economic
integration, social integration, and political integration. Using panel data for 123 countries in …

Measuring globalisation

A Dreher, N Gaston, P Martens - Gauging its Consequences Springer …, 2008 - Springer
During the last few decades, human dynamics, institutional change, political relations and
the global environment have become successively more intertwined. While increased global …

Does foreign direct investment accelerate economic growth

M Carkovic, R Levine - Does foreign direct investment promote …, 2005 - books.google.com
With commercial bank lending to developing economies drying up in the 1980s, most
countries eased restrictions on foreign direct investment (FDI) and many aggressively …

[PDF][PDF] A literature review on the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth

X Wan - International Business Research, 2010 - epe.lac-bac.gc.ca
During the last decades, the relation between FDI and economic growth has been
extensively discussed in the economic literature. Theories and existing literature provide …

The causal relationship between information and communication technology and foreign direct investment

R Gholami, SY Tom Lee, A Heshmati - World Economy, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the simultaneous causal relationship between investments in
information and communication technology (ICT) and flows of foreign direct investment …

The impact of political risk on foreign direct investment

MM Khan, MI Akbar - 2013 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
Political risk, like all other risks, has an adverse effect on any economy. Even though other
forms of risk, such as economic risk and financial risk have been studied quite extensively …

Growth effects of FDI and portfolio investment flows to developing countries: a disaggregated analysis by income levels

G De Vita, KS Kyaw - Applied economics letters, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
What is the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and portfolio investment flows on the
economic growth of low-, lower middle-and upper middle-income countries? In this article …

Spatial impact of foreign direct investment on ecological footprint in Africa

S Arogundade, B Mduduzi, AS Hassan - Environmental Science and …, 2022 - Springer
This study examines the spatial impact of FDI on ecological footprint of 31 African countries.
In achieving this, the study uses the Driscoll-Kraay (1998) random effect model, fixed-effect …

Human capital threshold, foreign direct investment and economic growth: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

FO Anetor - International Journal of Development Issues, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the mediating effect of human capital in
foreign direct investment (FDI) and growth nexus and establish the threshold of human …

Why are population flows so persistent?

J Rappaport - FRB of Kansas City Working Paper, 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
A neoclassical model of local growth is developed by integrating the static equilibrium
underlying compensating differential theory as the long run steady state of a Ramsey-Cass …