scholarly journals Determinants of chinese outward foreign direct investments in africa; sadc and non-sadc countries

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-63
Author(s):  
Audria Philes Cosmas ◽  
Xi Aihua
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Main Determinants ◽  
Chinese Foreign Direct Investment

As globalization has led to rapid increase in foreign direct investment, China‘s outward foreign direct investments has also been growing rapidly in the global economy. Recently, there have been rapid growing economic activities between China and Africa. Many African countries are trying their best to find ways to attract more Chinese foreign direct investment (OFDI).The performance of Southern Africa Developing Community (SADC) in attracting foreign directinvestment if compared with other regions is poor. This paper aimed at identifying and analyzing the determinants of Chinese OFDI in Africa particularly in SADC and making a comparison between SADC and non-SADC countries. Using panel data analysis for a sample of 21 African countries over the period 2005 to 2012 the study showed that the main determinants identified and most significant in SADC were GDP per Capita, imports, openness to FDI, telephone lines (per 100 people) and being a SADC member.

Doing Business in Africa and African Business Opportunities

2014 ◽  
pp. 119-166
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Performance Levels ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
And Performance

This is a key chapter in this book. It is central to the book’s message and explains fully the concept “doing business in Africa.” The chapter further classifies African business opportunities into enabling and specific opportunities. Specific opportunities are precise areas of Foreign Direct investments. The enabling opportunities are resources and institutions that make investing and doing business in Africa possible and easier. These resources and institutions include USA, European, Chinese, Brazilian, and Indian strategies to promote investment and “doing business in Africa.” These strategies further include linkages and several USA, European, Indian, Brazilian, and Chinese institutions focusing on promoting African trade and business. Moreover, the various perspectives of Foreign Direct Investment in Africa are elucidated and African countries are classified according to their economic development and performance levels.

Impact of foreign direct investment inflows on environmental pollution in Turkey

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yilmaz Bayar
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
Causality Analysis ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment Inflows

The globalization accelerated especially as of 1980s and the countries began to integrate global economy and remove the constraints on the flows of goods, services and capital. In this context, the developed countries partly shifted their environmentally hazardous production activities to the developing countries especially by means of foreign direct investments. This study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment inflows on the environmental pollution in Turkey during the period 1974-2010 by using Toda and Yamamoto (1995) causality test. We found that there was a bidirectional causality between foreign direct investment inflows and  emissions.Keywords: Foreign direct investment inflows,  emissions, causality analysis

scholarly journals The Impact of Terrorism Activities As Threat To Unstable Economy on Foreign Direct Investments FDI: A Panel Study of 33 Sub-Saharan African Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yao HongXing ◽  
Winfred Okoe Addy ◽  
Samuel Kofi Otchere ◽  
Robert Yao Aaronson ◽  
Jean-Jacques Dominique Beraud
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Linear Relationship ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Random Effect ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Impact

The study aims to assess the impact of terrorism activities on foreign direct investment in a panel study of 33 Sub-Saharan African countries. In order to achieve the objective of the study, it employed panel data methodologies such as GLS random-effect, ML random-effect, fixed effect regression, generalized linear model and multivariate regression methods to enable it make statistically and robust inference or conclusion. However, the study found that there is an inverse linear relationship or impact on foreign direct investment in Sub-Saharan Africa. Also, the study found out that economic growth and foreign direct investment are inversely related and corruption control has positive and direct linear relationship with foreign direct investment. As the study focused on the linear relationship of terrorism activities and foreign direct investments, it recommends further studies into the subject-matter by employing the non-linear approaches to ascertain the non-linear relationship between the two.

scholarly journals Impact of Tax Incentives on Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8661
Author(s):  
Seth Nana Kwame Appiah-Kubi ◽  
Karel Malec ◽  
Joseph Phiri ◽  
Mansoor Maitah ◽  
Zdeňka Gebeltová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Random Effect ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Tax Holidays

African countries have faced competition and several challenges to attract foreign direct investment given the role that FDIs play in the development process. Several efforts made have been futile because of numerous factors that play against the business environment for foreign investments. Our paper analyses the influence of tax incentives on foreign direct investment in African economies based on data from 2000–2018. We utilized panel data on forty (40) African countries and an econometric model of four proxies of tax incentives, after controlling other variables, with robust Random Effect as our discussion estimator. Our results revealed that FDI responds to lower corporate income tax (CTR). Furthermore, foreign direct investment predominates in African economies with longer tax holidays and withholding tax. However, tax concession is insignificant to the inflows of FDIs in Africa. Summarizing, our results recommend that without proper restructuring of the tax incentives to deal with policy lapses by the governments of Africa, achieving the four main goals, i.e., poverty eradication, sustainable growth and development, African integration in the competitive global economy, and women empowerment, will be hindered.

scholarly journals Trade Liberalization, Economic Reforms and Foreign Direct Investment – A Critical Analysis of the Political Transformation in Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.C. Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Investment Performance ◽  
Per Capita

The purpose of this study is to discuss the trends of integration into the global economy since political and economic reforms (so-called Doimoi) and its influence on every presence of foreign investment in Vietnam. Lasting 20-year-war period and ended in 1975, by the mid-1980s per capita income was stuck between $200 and $300, Vietnam’s government introduced Doimoi through a series of reforms, and steered the country to be a socialist-oriented market economy. Based on the analysis of reform process and integration, the results are concerned. Our results demonstrate that foreign direct investment performance has significantly embraced trade liberalization with gusto. Further, the open trade policy in relation to FTAs could significantly promote foreign investment and maximize its benefits on the economy.

scholarly journals Foreign Direct Investments and Attracting Policies to be Undertaken by the Government. The Case of Kosovo

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Demir Limaj
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The World ◽  
Comparative Statistical Analysis ◽  
The Government

This paper focuses on foreign direct investments in Kosovo, based on a comparative statistical analysis of different sectors of economic activity and different countries of the world that have invested in Kosovo during the reporting period under study. We make use of the comparative analysis expressed in (%) by sorts of economic activity and aim to conclude which sector is more invested by foreign direct investment in Kosovo according to its economic activity. Whereas, through comparative analysis by different countries of the world that have invested in Kosovo, we aim to determine which are the countries that have mostly invested in foreign direct investment in Kosovo, and the level of performance of foreign direct investments during the reported period under study. The data were provided by the Central Bank of Kosovo for the period 2007-2019. In this paper we reflect the performance of foreign direct investments by years based on different sectors of economic activities and by different countries that have invested in Kosovo by applying the comparative analysis. It is of particular importance here to mention some of the options we suggest regarding to some of the government policies that should be undertaken in attracting and increasing foreign direct investments in Kosovo.   Received: 7 August 2020 / Accepted: 17 December 2020 / Published: 17 January 2021

scholarly journals An Impact Assessment of Expected Future Turmoil Risk on FDI: A Panel Data Analysis of Developing Countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahvish Faran
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Gdp Per Capita ◽  
Democratic Accountability ◽  
Fdi Inflows ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Very High

This paper uses foreign direct investment (FDI) data from 39 developing countries for the period 2002–11 to explore whether the expected future turmoil risk of a country plays a significant role in determining FDI. It concludes that countries for which the expected future turmoil risk is very high are likely to have lower FDI inflows than countries for which the expected future turmoil risk is low, keeping all other factors constant. The results also illustrate that GDP per capita, democratic accountability, religious tension, and FDI inflows in the previous period are important determinants of FDI in developing countries.

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