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Does economic distance affect the flows of trade and foreign direct investment? : evidence from Vietnam
Thai-Ha Le - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-14
’s trade and FDI inflows. The economic distance between Vietnam and her partner countries has a significantly positive …This study examines the effect of relative economic distance (RED) between countries on bilateral foreign trade and … foreign direct investment (FDI), using Vietnam as a case study. The difference in per-capita GDP is used as proxy for the RED …
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Rate of return on foreign investment income and employment labour protection : a panel analysis of thirty OECD countries
Polat, Burçak - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-8
Scholars argue that multinational corporations tend to locate their investments in countries with lower employment protections to avoid potential future exit costs if an unfavourable event occurs. Yet, empirical results are highly inconsistent. The main objective of this study is to examine the...
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Impact of China's outward fdi on sub-saharan africa’s industrialization : evidence from 26 countries
Megbowon, Ebenezer; Mlambo, Courage; Okuneye, Babatunde … - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-14
The growing involvement of China in the African region has continued to stimulate questions on the impact of her involvement in the region. This paper attempt to contribute to this debate and as well pursue a development goal by empirically answering the question that "can China’s FDI in...
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The impact of foreign direct investment, foreign aid and trade on poverty reduction : evidence from Sub-Saharan African countries
Anetor, Friday Osemenshan; Esho, Ebes; Verhoef, Grietjie - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-14
Despite postulations on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI), foreign aid, and trade on growth, empirical … twenty-nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa between the period 1990-2017 to analyze the effects of FDI, trade, and foreign …. However, the results show that trade has a positive and significant impact on poverty reduction, especially in low …
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Growth effect of trade and investment in Sub-Saharan Africa countries : empirical insight from panel corrected standard error (PCSE) technique
Ikpesu, Fredrick; Vincent, Olusegun; Dakare, Olamitunji - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-13
The pre-eminence of trade and investment in the economic prosperity of developed and developing countries cannot be … overemphasized. Many studies have shown a strong positive impact of trade on economic growth across developed and the emerging market …. However, very little is known about the simultaneous effect of trade and investment on growth in SSA when institutional …
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Trade openness, income, and role of institutions : a revisit using heterogeneous panel data models
Thennakoon, Jayanthi; Dissanayake, Jagath - In: Cogent economics & finance 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-9
The positive association between trade openness and income has been debated over years due to serious estimation flaws … prevailing in the cross-country empirical trade literature. The present paper contributes to this debate by re-examining the long …-run relationship between trade openness and income per capita focusing on role of institutions. It does so by estimating a …
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A gravity model analysis for trade between the GCC and developed countries
Khayat, Sahar Hassan - In: Cogent economics & finance 7 (2019) 1, pp. 1-13
The study aimed to empirically analyse GCC’s trade patterns based on the gravity model. Gravity model is derived from … physics and is used to explain the bilateral flow of trade determined by GDP per capita, population, and distance. It is … assumed that trade flow between the two countries is positively related to their economic size and population. The gravity …
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FDI inflows and poverty reduction in Botswana : an empirical investigation
Magombeyi, M. T.; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Cogent economics & finance 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-15
This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on poverty reduction in Botswana from 1980 to 2014. The main objective of this study is to establish whether FDI plays a positive role in poverty reduction. The study employs autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL)...
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Environmental risk and growth in foreign direct investment : is the composition of FDI in sub-Saharan Africa a speculative type?
Ohemeng, Williams; Ofori-Boateng, Kenneth; Agyapong, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-25
The study explores the influence of environmental risk (macroeconomic uncertainty and environmental sustainability risk) on the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI), utilizing data from 37 economies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from 1996 to 2019. The empirical analyses were carried out using...
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The impact of foreign direct investment on Namibia’s economic growth : a time series investigation
Sunde, Tafirenyika - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-15
2020 using the ARDL cointegration method. The results reveal that FDI, the interactive variable of FDI and trade openness … FDI-led growth and the Bhagwati hypotheses for Namibia as shown by the FDI and the interactive variable of FDI and trade …
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