The direct investment flows of Germany since 2018 are remarkable in the context of long-term development and global direct investment activities. While inflows to Germany have been below average in recent years, outflows from Germany - with the exception of 2024 - have been above average. These...

Au lendemain de la transition démocratique, les autorités guinéennes ont misé davantage sur les flux entrants d'investissements directs étrangers (IDE) en tant que source alternative de financement de l'économie. Or, les résultats escomptés restent nettement inférieurs au potentiel du...

This study examines the complementarity or substitutability of regional capital mobility to global capital mobility within the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) economies. With a re-specified inter-temporal consumption framework, the savings-investment correlation of the Feldstein-Horioka (hereinafter...

Este artículo examina la relación dinámica entre la inversión extranjera directa (IED), la inversión pública (IPUB) de los gobiernos locales y el crecimiento económico para el conjunto de las 32 entidades federativas en México agrupadas por región y por nivel de competitividad para el...

Only strong economic growth will help Europe emerge from its crisis. The reforms implemented to date at national and European level have failed to impact the economypositively; this is due to excessive national, corporate, and private debts, the flawed banking system, the lack of structural...

In the course of the economic and financial crisis, investment activity, which was not very strong to begin with, in Europe and especially the Eurozone caved in. In relation to gross domestic product, fixed capital formation declined by four percentage points since 2008. Already prior to the...

Im Zuge der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise ist die ohnehin nicht kräftige Investitionstätigkeit in Europa und insbesondere im Euroraum eingebrochen; in Relation zum Bruttoinlandsprodukt sind die Bruttoanlageinvestitionen seit 2008 um vier Prozentpunkte gesunken. Schon vor der Krise war in Teilen...

Nur mit starkem Wirtschaftswachstum wird Europa aus seiner Krise herauskommen. Die Überschuldung der Regierungen, Unternehmen und Haushalte, die Schwäche des Bankensystems, ausstehende Strukturreformen sowie unzureichende institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen auf europäischer Ebene verhindern...

This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on total factor productivity conditional on relative backwardness in a panel of 45 African countries over the period 1980-2012. We use two measures of relative backwardness, namely: the distance from technological frontier and the...

Much discussed and analyzed globalization is a multidimensional and complex process having today a significant magnitude as compared to the past, manifested through various forms of internationalization of production, foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, transnational corporations (TNCs),...