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This study dissects with great acuteness some of the big questions on China-Africa relations in order to debunk … direction of China-Africa relations. In the mean, the relationship from an economic standpoint is promising and encouraging but …
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Contrary to mainstream consensus on the dominance of English common law countries in investment prospects, this paper sets a new tone in the legal origins debate by providing empirical validity on the dominance of French civil-law countries in private investment. The assessment is based on 38...
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This paper assesses if legal origin explains domestic, foreign, private and public investments through financial intermediary channels of depth, efficiency, activity and size. The findings show that legal origin matters in the finance-investment nexus, though its ability to explain aggregate...
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Purpose - The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions in the promotion of investment documented by Acemoglu and Johnson (2005), Ali (2013) and Asongu (2014). We assess the effects of various components of governance on private investment, notably: political, economic and...
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her operations and local businesses; exporting low quality products to Africa; and the emergence of China hindering Africa …
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This paper examines FDI determinants in the BRICS and MINT throughout the conditional distributions of FDI for the …, the determinants are contingent on initial or existing FDI levels. The following are some of the findings established …. First, FDI benefits of GDP growth are more apparent in nations with higher initial levels of FDI. Second, real GDP output …
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We assess drivers of FDI in a panel of BRICS and MINT countries for the period 2001-2011. We bundle and unbundle … established. First, for both contemporary and non-contemporary specifications, while determinants for gross FDI are significant …, they are not for net FDI. Second, for contemporary specifications, the significance of the governance dynamics is as …
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This study employs panel analysis to examine the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Brazil, Russia …, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) and Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Turkey (MINT) using data for eleven years i ….e. 2001 - 2011. First, it uses pooled time-series cross sectional analysis to estimate the model on determinants of FDI for …
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