Broadly speaking, a country's financial system includes all institutions involved in moving savings from households and firms (whose income exceeds their expenditures) to other households and firms who like to spend more than their income and liquid assets. There are basically five parts of the...

Corruption has become endemic in many African countries and is difficult to eradicate completely; therefore, reducing corruption to a tolerable level that will not deter foreign investors must be the aspiration of all political leaders and stakeholders. This study tries to identify the level of...

In 2009, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows to developed countries experienced the largest decline among all regions and sub-regions. However, South, East and Southeast Asia showed the smallest decline among developing economies and remained the largest recipient of FDI inflows. Meanwhile,...