With the growing presence of China in Africa over the last two decades, this paper investigates the impact of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic performance in Africa, which we compare to that of the traditional economic partners of African countries, including the U.S., France,...

The article empirically analyses the motivations and long-run economic outcomes of remittance inflows into the West African Economic and Monetary Union. Using Westerlund's (2007) ECM for panel time series and data spanning 1975–2011, the results show that there is no evidence of a long-run...

Many developing countries in need of foreign capital for development have implemented policies to attract foreign direct investment. At the same time, these countries attracted by the foreign currency earnings brought back by migrant workers in the form of remittances are promoting overseas...

The study constructs a linear model to evaluate the significant impacts of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on foreign direct investment (FDI) and the possible consequences of BITs. The results show that BITs have significantly promoted FDI and their effects are a substitute for the level of...

With the growing presence of China in Africa over the last two decades, this paper investigates the impact of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic performance in Africa, which we compare to that of the traditional economic partners of African countries, including the U.S., France,...