Since the early 1990s, developing countries have seen a rapid growth in their outward investments. The share of South, East and South-East Asia in global outward FDI has substantially increased in the last two decades. Due to the increasing importance of this region in global outward FDI, this...

This essay aims to examine the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) from China to Australia by analysing the proposed acquisition of Australian-based mining company Rio Tinto by the Chinese state-owned aluminium producer Chinalco. The proposed deal is illustrative of China's interest in...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in extractive industries (mining and quarrying) is expected to increase dramatically in many developing countries, due to the rising global demand for commodities. One key question for policymakers is whether this form of FDI could help spur investments in other...

In March 2013, Eurozone members and the International Monetary Fund offered a €10 billion rescue loan for fellow member Cyprus – representing more than half of its gross domestic product. Bailout would come with conditions, which will weaken Cyprus' traditional role as an offshore financial...

This paper reports the findings of Granger causality tests on the relationship between foreign direct investment (henceforth, FDI) and local financial market development across 62 countries from 1996 to 2007. In this paper we explore whether local financial market development is important in...

While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome development, the question remains as to the impact of these resource inflows on economic development. This study posits that a key channel of the impact of FDI on development is through its effects on...

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization - as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European countries between 1989 and 2004. Our main...

Gravity factors explain a large part of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows in transition economies, including in Southeastern Europe—a region not comprehensively covered before in econometric studies—but host country policies also matter. Key are policies that affect unit labor costs,...

Countries in the world undergo turbulences in economic activity known as economic or business cycles. It is the length of the cycles that differs depending on the economy’s macroeconomic strengths in policy and implementation. Zimbabwe is one economy that has been faced by various episodes of...

This paper is a small summary of a much broader project that analyzes the collective investment institutions in Spain through the European regulations, which must necessarily be adapted and that goes up to the last reform operated for the flexibility of this type of investments and its approach...