The study assesses the relevance of infrastructural absorptive capacity in the foreign direct investment (FDI)-growth argument in ECOWAS. Though foreign aid has received a vast attention in the literature, however, an assessment of how the infrastructural readiness of the host economies drives...

This paper provides evidence on the moderating effects of institutions on the marginal effects of human capital, financial development, and macroeconomic policies on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, based on large panel data of 124 developing countries-spanning from 2002 to 2018-and...

This study is an attempt to empirically investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on socio-economic development in the "Belt & Road" initiative (BRI) countries. It employed panel data for the period 2005 to 2018. This study used three socio-economic development indicators, life...

Japanese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the European Union and its performance were analysed in this work. Three different FDI or entry modes used by Japanese companies to enter the European market were compared, and the presence of a relationship between the selected entry mode and the...