This paper re-examines the relationship between FDI inflows and welfare (or poverty reduction) in Africa. Using FDI net … relationship between FDI net inflows and poverty reduction in Africa but find significant differences among African regions. We … also find that FDI has a greater impact on welfare in poorer countries than it does in wealthier countries. For instance …

Existing studies have often failed to find positive impacts of horizontal FDI on domestic firms. We argue that the two … effects underpinning the impacts of horizontal FDI (i.e., the positive spillover effect and the negative competition effect …) have different degrees of attenuation with distance. As FDI is often distributed unevenly across space, studies without …

This paper examines the relationship between FDI inflows and welfare improvement in North African countries. Using net … per capita FDI inflows and the UNDP's HDI as the principal variables, our analyses confirm the positive and strongly … significant relationship between net FDI inflows and welfare improvement in North Africa, although we do find significant …

Foreign trade and foreign direct investments (FDI) are key elements for economic development and growth of both a … country and its regions. This paper focuses on foreign trade and FDI in Austrian regions (Bundesländer). Unfortunately, data …

trade and FDI are found to have significant impact on the upsurge of labour productivity growth in BRICS, where the …

This paper examines the impact of FDI investment on air pollution in China using 286 cities from 2001 through 2007 … environment. In order to achieve this task, the current paper tests whether or not FDI inflow has impact on environmental … FDI has no negative impact on the air quality in China. Contrary to expectations, the presence of FDI investment reduces …

The paper examines the foreign direct investment (FDI) spillover effects in developing countries and investigates the … importance of the absorptive capacity of a firm and a country in realizing and facilitating FDI spillover. It uses data obtained … countries do not benefit from horizontal FDI but benefit from forward and backward vertical FDI. The study also finds that firms …