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Causal relationship between FDI and poverty reduction in South Africa

Magombeyi, M. T.; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-12

This study investigates the causal relationship between poverty reduction and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in South Africa using time-series data from 1980 to 2014. The main objective of this study is to establish the direction of causality between FDI and poverty reduction, which is...

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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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Does foreign direct investment reduce poverty? : empirical evidence from Tanzania

Magombeyi, M. T.; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 67 (2017) 2, pp. 101-116

This paper investigates the direct impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows on poverty reduction in Tanzania between 1980 and 2014. The paper attempts to answer one critical question: Does FDI reduce poverty in Tanzania? The study employs three poverty reduction proxies, namely,...

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Foreign Direct Investment and child health outcomes in Africa

Immurana, Mustapha; Iddrisu, Abdul-Aziz; Owusu, Samuel; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-13

While several studies have examined the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on economic development indicators, most of these studies focused on economic growth with very little attention paid to health outcomes. Moreover, among the studies that took account of health outcomes, none of...

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Developing Asia's Sovereign Wealth Funds and Outward Foreign Direct Investment

Park, Donghyun; Estrada, Gemma - 2009

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have emerged in developing Asia as a policy response to an unprecedented accumulation of … sensitivity of state-led FDI severely constrains the ability of developing Asia's SWFs to undertake FDI on a significant scale …. Therefore, the potential for developing Asia's SWFs to become major sources of outward FDI is more apparent than real. This …

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