The objective of this paper is to examine whether foreign direct investments (FDI) in extractive sector enhances growth, using data from seven MENA oil producing countries; namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Iran over the period 1980 to 2004. We employ...

This paper examines the effect of extractive FDI and trade on economic growth in Nigeria, using the bounds testing technique in autoregressive distributed lag model framework (ARDL) due to Pesaran et al., (1996, 2001) between the period 1970 and 2003. The results show that extractive FDI has...

The growth has been linked to foreign direct investment inflows. This paper examines whether FDI in extractive sector enhances growth, using data from seven MENA oil producing countries; namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Iran over the period 1980 to...