. This chapter discusses the potential of social impact investment for developing countries, highlighting several examples to … intended impact and expanding the evidence base. The public sector can promote social impact investment, for example by … populations. The chapter makes recommendations for increasing the reach and the scale of social impact investment …

Sub-Saharan Africa as elsewhere, a country’s attractiveness as a destination for investment and its competitive advantage …Investors all too often assign a uniform broad - brush risk rating to Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, with over 40 nations and … a landmass nearly twice that of Europe, there is clearly reason to suggest risk - return in Sub-Saharan Africa is unique …

This paper uses the data set from the fourth survey by UNIDO of manufacturing firms in Sub-Saharan Africa to identify … whether foreign direct investment affects the behaviour of local firms with respect to investment, product innovation and … perception and eality. The presence of foreign investment has not affected the behaviour of the vast majority of domestic firms …

governance as a better determinant of private investment than financial intermediary development. Moreover, the evidence of …Purpose - The study extends the debate on finance versus institutions in the promotion of investment documented by … investment, notably: political, economic and institutional governances. Financial indicators of depth, allocation efficiency …

Over many past decades countries in sub-Saharan Africa have received extensive bilateral and multilateral aid in … capacity-building. -- aid ; statistics ; Africa …

Development economists have enjoined Africans to leverage on remittance as their main source of investment financing …'s remittance and investment financing and the modulating effect of the investment climate in this relation on a panel of 28 sub … following empirical findings were established. First, the theoretical supposition underpinning the assumption in investment …