Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: The Role of Natural Resources, Market Size, Government Policy, Institutions and Political Instability

By E. Asiedu. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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Do Institutions Matter for Foreign Direct Investment? (2010, background): “Asiedu (2005) compares the impact of institutions with the impact of non-policy variables, such as the availability of natural resources and market size of FDI, and concludes that countries that are small or lack natural resources can increase FDI by improving institutions.”
Determinants of foreign direct investment in BRICS economies: Analysis of economic, institutional and political factor (2012, neutral): “1999; Asiedu and Villamil 2000; Wei 2000; Asiedu 2006;Ting & Tang 2010).”
Better the Devil You Know? Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Africa (2011, background): “Comparisons with previous studies on FDI in Africa, such as Asiedu (2006) and Breslin and Samanta (2008), would provide an incomplete picture, as they do not include interaction effects of natural resources and institutions.”
Income level and the energy consumption–GDP nexus: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (2012, background): “We limit the sample to African countries because of widespread perception that the African economies are structurally different from those in the rest of the world (Asiedu, 2006), and many African policymakers believe that lessons from other parts of the world do not apply to their countries.”
What determines Chinese outward FDI (2012, background): “Harms and Ursprung (2002) get mixed results for an oil dummy, and Asiedu (2006) finds resources significant for total FDI flows to African countries.”
FDI Flows to Sub-Saharan Africa: The Impact of Finance, Institutions, and Natural Resource Endowment (2012, background): “The finding, which is consistent with the tenets of the theory of comparative advantage, provides support for the earlier evidence from Asiedu (2006) and offers further explanation to the statistical report by UNCTAD (2005) that majority of FDI flows to Africa are indeed motivated by natural…”
WHAT IS DRIVING THE ‘AFRICAN GROWTH MIRACLE’? (2014, background): “For example, Asiedu (2006) finds that political instability has been a deterrent to foreign direct investment in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
The impact of institutional quality on foreign direct investment inflows: evidence for developed and developing countries (2018, background): “Further, other scholars argue that infrastructure significantly and positively impacts F.D.I. inflows in developing economies (Asiedu, 2006; Khadaroo & Seetanah, 2010).”