The effects of the financial crisis on Sub-Saharan Africa

F Allen, G Giovannetti - Review of Development Finance, 2011 - journals.co.za
This paper analyses the channels through which the economic and financial crisis of 2008-
2009 was transmitted to Sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on countries in situation of fragility …

The foreign direct investment–economic growth nexus

S Iamsiraroj - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2016 - Elsevier
The nexus between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth has been a long-
standing debate from mixed empirical findings. There is also a possibility of a bi-directional …

Exploring the relationship between institutional factors and FDI attractiveness: A meta-analytic review

N Bailey - International Business Review, 2018 - Elsevier
This meta-analysis attempts to synthesize and review decades of research on the
relationship between institutional factors and host country foreign direct investment (FDI) …

[PDF][PDF] Why does foreign direct investment go where it goes?: New evidence from African countries

JC Anyanwu - Annals of economics and finance, 2012 - researchgate.net
The central concern of this paper is to respond to the question: why do FDI inflows go where
they do in African countries? An understanding of such factors will assist African …

Institutional quality and FDI inflows in Arab economies

OG Aziz - Finance Research Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
This study empirically examines the impact of institutional quality on FDI inflows in the Arab
region. The analysis is performed by employing system GMM estimation in panel data …

Determinants of foreign direct investment: A systematic review of the empirical studies

MS Islam, A Beloucif - Foreign Trade Review, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
A growing body of literature is concerned with the factors that determine the inflows of
foreign direct investment (FDI) into a host country. However, hardly any literature has been …

FDI from the south: The role of institutional distance and natural resources

M Aleksynska, O Havrylchyk - European Journal of Political Economy, 2013 - Elsevier
Using a novel dataset of bilateral FDI flows, we analyze location choices of investors from
emerging economies, with an emphasis on institutions and natural resources. We show that …

Human capital and FDI inflow: An assessment of the African case

EA Cleeve, Y Debrah, Z Yiheyis - World Development, 2015 - Elsevier
This study assesses the role of human capital (HK) on FDI inflows to sub-Saharan Africa. It
uses panel data for the period 1980–2012 to asses if changing skill needs influence FDI …

Institutional determinants of inward FDI: Evidence from Pakistan

M Uddin, A Chowdhury, S Zafar, S Shafique… - International Business …, 2019 - Elsevier
FDI has been growing at a spectacular pace all over the world and emerging countries have
been successful in attracting more FDI compared to developed countries. Institutional factors …

Economic complexity, human capital, and FDI attraction: A cross country analysis

P Sadeghi, H Shahrestani, KH Kiani, T Torabi - International Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows dynamics indicate that its new wave is efficiency-
seeking and, thus, the recent literature emphasizes the host countries knowledge role and …