German Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Africa is lagging behind China, France, the Netherlands, the UK, the US, and … other economies. It represented only 1 percent of the German total FDI stock abroad in 2018 and is concentrated in few …). Compared with the main sending countries, German FDI is more concentrated in manufacturing as opposed to the natural resources …

This paper aims to identify the obstacles to attracting "quality" foreign direct investment (FDI) in middle … developing and emerging market economies to use quality FDI to upgrade and diversify their production and export bases - and to …

pictures of leaking oil fields and collapsing factories. While this does happen, data show that FDI in developing countries … as skill levels needed by FDI increase, so do wage levels (ILO 2007, Coniglio et al. 2015). Accordingly, many emerging … economies have built their success to a considerable degree on FDI flows to cover their enormous need for investments. The trick …

foreign companies. This paper makes this point using aggregate data on world-wide FDI stocks. It then tries to explain why … this is the case. It first reviews the important drivers of FDI that have been identified in the literature, and then …