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The current literature shows a significant negative impact of terrorism on countries' economies. We explore this … relationship in more detail. Using an unbalanced panel of over 160 countries for up to 25 years and the Global Terrorism Database … (GTD) we show a decrease in FDI as a consequence of terrorism. We also find evidence that FDI flows are more sensitive to …
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relatively few linkages between MNEs and domestic firms in sub-Saharan Africa compared with Asia. However, when linkages are … present in sub-Saharan Africa, they raise the likelihood of direct knowledge/technology transfers from MNEs to domestic firms …
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This paper investigated the determinants of China’s FDI flow in Africa’s oil/minerals exporting countries from 2003 to … FDI flow. In other words, China’s FDI flow in Africa is inclined toward the extractive sector. Furthermore, the …
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-Saharan Africa, which the World Bank hopes to see further expanded so as to ignite industrialization. These studies have looked … mainly at the Africa-side situation (i.e., what is happening in the host region). Instead, this paper focuses on China …
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Given the important role inward FDI can play in accelerating economic growth and transformation, developing countries are interested in attracting it. This study contributes to evidence based policy making and to academic research on governance FDI relationship by meta synthesising 771 estimates...
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Background: South Asian countries still maintained barriers to trade including regulatory restrictions on Foreign Direct Investment, non-tariff barriers and lack of banking channels. These restrictions are not only affecting the regional trade integration but also affecting the transfer of...
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Africa. The major thrust of the study was to find out whether terrorism in its diverse dimensions had impacted positively or … data bases: The United Nations World Investment Report (UNCTAD) and Global Terrorism Database (GTD). While the UNCTAD … Terrorism has significant effect on FDI. Thus, increase in Terrorist activities has devastatingly negative effect on inflow of …
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