Africa has produced mutual benefits for both and whether Africa is reaping the necessary benefits required for poverty … China's extraordinary level of interest in Africa - in particular, its economic engagement with perceived repressive regimes … - African leaders view China's entry as a means of pulling Africa onto the path of globalization. It is thus important that …

, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper …

development boosts linkages between domestic firms and multinationals. Using a novel dataset from the 2010 Africa Investor Survey … countries with worse institutions relative to the origin country. Additionally, institutional distance matters more for …

overemphasized. Many studies have shown a strong positive impact of trade on economic growth across developed and the emerging market …. However, very little is known about the simultaneous effect of trade and investment on growth in SSA when institutional … control variables are introduced in the model. Therefore, this study examines the role of trade and investment in the growth …

) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for the period 1985-2009. The empirical evidence is based on an … countries, the financial openness policy in the Non-GCC countries have reduced the benefits of FDI on growth, this finding is … of institutions. These results are confirmed with both annual data and five year average data. …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is generally considered a driving factor to economic growth. Nevertheless, empirical … evidence is rather mixed, reporting a positive, neutral, or even negative relationship of FDI with growth. Our investigation … concentrates on the impact of FDI inflows on growth and their effect mediated by income levels and the quality of the institutional …