The study examines the contribution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to the performance of non-oil exports in Nigeria within the framework of the export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis. Available evidence in Nigeria supports that the bulk of FDI inflow into the country goes to the oil sector of...

The thorough economic literatures present on the role of Foreign Direct Investment in positively affecting the economic growth prove its importance for the development and prosperity of Pakistan. The study aims at identifying the determinants of FDI and studying the FDI-economic growth...

Using panel data from 1981 to 2005, this paper examines the Granger causality relations among GDP, exports and FDI ill the three first generation Asian newly industrializing economies (ANIEs): Korea. Taiwan, Singapore, and in the four second generation ANIEs: Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand,...

Most nations are predominately preoccupied with the need to increase economic growth amidst pressure for increased energy consumption. However, higher energy consumption from fossil fuel has its environmental implication(s) especially in a high industrial economy like China. In this context, the...

This paper analyzes the contribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) to economic growth in Côte d'Ivoire, for the period 1980-2019. We use the World Development Indicators (World Bank) database. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) cointegration approach results show that, in the short...

The objective of this paper is to examine the causal relationship of foreign portfolio inflows and economic growth for two Asian economies, i.e. China and India. We have used Granger causality test for both countries' data ranging from 2001 to 2013 and concur with the findings of Durham (2003)...

Usually developing countries are characterised by capital scarcity and hence resort to stringent trade and capital control policies. This might become counterproductive and provide incentives to the international traders and investors for corrupt practices and as a result, scarce capital might...