India has witnessed a tremendous economic growth, as measured by GDP, over the past 10 years. Many experts have pointed out that FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) has been one of the major factors taking India to this growth level. Foreign investment in India has increased continuously since...

This paper tests empirically the effect of the real inflows of the foreign direct investment on the Egyptian growth rate by utilizing a simple intervention time series model to capture the dynamism of such effect over time. The results show positive significant effects of the real foreign direct...

China's trade and investment relationship with Africa is important to both trading partners. For China, Africa represents a growing source of raw materials –most importantly crude oil, iron ore/concentrates, and copper-- which have helped fuel China's rapid infrastructure development. For...

China's position as the world's second largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) has been well documented. However, it is less well known that China has recently become an important supplier of global FDI. This briefing describes what is known about the magnitude and composition of...

In this study, we tried to see the impact of military expenditure and foreign aid on foreign direct investment in Sub-Saharan Africa using a panel data analysis. Based on the results obtained from the fixed effect estimation model, Net Official Development Assistance (ODA) can increase the...

This study treats the relationship of economy size of Western Balkan countries with Foreign direct investment (FDI) for ten years' period. Through knowing the FDI importance in economic development is measured the impact of economy size of Western Balkan countries in attracting foreign direct...

The purpose of this paper is to present simple quantitative methods that improve risk-adjusted returns for investing in US equity sectors and global asset class portfolios. A relative strength model is tested on the French-Fama US equity sector data back to the 1920s that results in increased...