Purpose This paper aims to synthesize, analyze and categorize the empirical literature on
country-specific factors that affect foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to the Middle East …

Explains recent economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa, including a gross domestic
product (GDP) growth which rose from 4.2 percent in 2013 to 4.6 in 2014, supported by …

Rwanda faces energy shortage, despite having ample energy resources potential.
Developing renewable energy (RE) could meet the country's energy needs to achieve …

Countries dependent on oil and mineral exports are often advised to diversify their
economies, yet surprisingly little is known about how this can be done. This paper reviews …

During the 2000s, expenditure inequality in Arab countries was low or moderate and, in
many cases, declining. Different measures of wealth inequality were also lower than …

The relationship between political violence and greenfield foreign direct investment is
contingent on the type of violence, the characteristics of the investment-receiving sector, and …

Deploying small world representation logic, we examine the context-specific factors that
inform managerial decision-making in conflict-torn countries. Drawing on insights from thirty …

Oil-exporting countries are often advised to diversify their economies, yet surprisingly little is
known about how this can be done. Research on this issue has been constrained by …

This study investigates the effects of terrorist attacks on foreign investment by stressing the
importance of both business-and non-business-targeting terrorism in the host country …

This paper explores the factors that determine the FDI inflows in an oil abundant host
country. The approach followed in our study allow us to check short-and long-run validity of …