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Foreign direct investment and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa : A nonlinear analysis
Asafo-Agyei, George; Kodongo, Odongo - 2022
Using the threshold regression model, we examine the effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and the mediating role of FDI absorptive capacity, on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. We find that the threshold level of FDI inflows per person is approximately US$ 44.67 per annum. For FDI...
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The Implications of China's Ascendancy for Africa
Besada, Hany - 2008
China's spectacular economic progress has led some security analysts and policy makers in the North and the South to question Beijing's intentions in other parts of the world. This paper examines the extent to which China's engagement with Africa has produced mutual benefits for both and whether...
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The role of value added across economic sectors in modulating the effects of FDI on TFP and economic growth dynamics
Asongu, Simplice; Meniago, Christelle; Salahodjaev, Raufhon - 2021
Method of Moments. The following main findings are established. First, FDI has a positive effect on GDP growth, GDP per … capita and welfare real TFP. Second, the effect of FDI is negative on real GDP and TFP, while the impact is insignificant on …
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The impact of foreign financial inflows on the economic growth of sub-Saharan African countries : an empirical approach
Ayenew, Belesity Bekalu - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-12
The impact of foreign financial inflows on the economic growth of recipient countries is a controversial issue in many empirical studies. The majority of the previous studies use one variable as an indicator of foreign financial inflows; they fail to incorporate many variables. The study fills...
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Towards sustainability : the relationship between foreign direct investment, economic freedom and inclusive green growth
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Figari, Francesco; Ojong, Nathanael - 2023
This study contributes to the environmental and socioeconomic sustainability literature by examining three important issues. First, the study examines the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic freedom on inclusive green growth (IGG) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Second, we...
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Nexus between foreign direct investment and economic growth in Bangladesh : an augmented autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach
Sarker, Bibhuti; Khan, Farid - In: Financial innovation : FIN 6 (2020) 10, pp. 1-18
revealed the opposite result. Studies that examined the causality between FDI and gross domestic product (GDP) also have found … between FDI and GDP in Bangladesh by employing standard time-series econometric tools, namely, augmented Dickey … causality to explore the direction of causality. The augmented ARDL model found a long-run relationship between FDI and GDP. In …
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Foreign direct investment and economic growth in Côte d'Ivoire : an application of the bounds testing approach to cointegration
Iritié, Bi Goli Jean Jacques; Tiémélé, Jean Baptiste - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-21
This paper analyzes the contribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) to economic growth in Côte d'Ivoire, for the period 1980-2019. We use the World Development Indicators (World Bank) database. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) cointegration approach results show that, in the short...
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Invest in Africa : A framework for Rational Investment in Sub - Saharan Africa
Tawia, Steve - 2011
Investors all too often assign a uniform broad - brush risk rating to Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, with over 40 nations and a landmass nearly twice that of Europe, there is clearly reason to suggest risk - return in Sub-Saharan Africa is unique across countries and specific to local experiences. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179526
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Thresholds of external flows for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N. - 2019
: (i) between 60 and 150 (% of GDP) is the threshold of foreign aid; (ii) 33.333 (% of GDP) is the foreign investment … threshold and (iii) 25 (% of GDP) is the critical mass of remittances. At the established critical masses or thresholds …
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The effects of the catch-up mechanism on the structural transformation of Sub-Saharan Africa
Ssozi, John; Bbaale, Edward - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 4/111, pp. 1-27
coefficients for both the agricultural and manufacturing shares of gross domestic product (GDP) but is positively associated with … both the services shares of employment and GDP. A test of Kaldor´s third law finds that if growth in employment outside …
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