This paper revisits the argument on the contentious causality relationship between net FDI inflows and GDP among the pioneering Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN-5) members using data from 1970 till 2013. Although two-way correlations exist between these two variables in these...

This paper investigated the determinants of China’s FDI flow in Africa’s oil/minerals exporting countries from 2003 to 2017 using the UN-Comtrade Harmonized System (HS) nomenclature trade data and UNCTAD China’s FDI data to examine the extent to which sector trade, institution and other...

This article seeks to compare the export incidence and technological capabilities of foreign and local electronics firms in Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand, and to explain their determinants. Foreign firms generally produced higher human resource and process technology capabilities than...

This paper uses firm level survey data to examine productivity, and export, skills and technological intensities between foreign and local firms in Kenyan food and beverages, metal engineering, and textile and garment. Foreign firms enjoyed statistically highly significant higher labour...

This paper uses firm level survey data to examine productivity, and export, skills and technological intensities between foreign and local firms in Kenyan food and beverages, metal engineering, and textile and garment. Foreign firms enjoyed statistically highly significant higher labour...