On the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Countries: Is Africa Different?

By E. Asiedu. 2002

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What Drives Foreign Direct Investments into West Africa? An Empirical Investigation (2015, background): “Other studies found that countries that are more opened for international trade receive more FDI (Asiedu (2002), Noorbakhsh et al. (2001), Morisset (2000), Aizenman and Noy (2006), and Anyanwu (2012)).”
Determinants of foreign direct investment in fast-growing economies: evidence from the BRICS and MINT countries (2018, neutral): “…rate, an indicator for infrastructure availability, inflation, and availability of natural resources, as well as indicators to capture political risks and institutional strength (Asiedu, 2002; Moosa, 2002; Moosa & Cardak, 2006; Jadhav, 2012; Sichei & Kinyondo, 2012; Rogmans & Ebbers, 2013; etc).”
Differential effects of trade on economic growth and investment: A cross-country empirical investigation (2015, background): “For instance, Asiedu (2002) found that openness to trade promotes FDI to SSA and non-SSA countries, even though the marginal benefit for the former was less.”
Determinants of foreign direct investment flows to developing countries: a cross-sectional analysis (2008, background): “According to Asiedu (2002) and Ancharaz (2003), the number of telephones per 1,000 inhabitants is a standard measurement in the literature for infrastructure development.”
Foreign direct investment and economic growth in Vietnam (2010, background): “Per capita usage of energy by Mudambi (1995), telephones per thousand of population by Asiedu (2002), railway transport by Bengoa and Sanchez-Robles (2003) and a general transportation/urbanization index by Glickman and Woodward (1988). This study utilizes telephones per thousand of population as a ”
The Role of the Investment Climate and Tax Incentives in the Foreign Direct Investment Decision: Evidence from South Africa (2011, background): “Asiedu (2002, 2006) tries to address the ‘‘dearth’’ of African FDI analysis through multicountry studies on FDI flows.”
Economic Freedom and Foreign Direct Investment in East Asia (2007, methodology): “Asiedu (2002) and Haque et al. (1997) contended that countries located in Sub-Saharan Africa are perceived as inherently risky, which likely keeps foreign investors away. Some studies have suggested that, even after the economic fundamentals are accounted for, there may still exist a regional bias i”
Foreign Presence, Spillovers, and Productivity: Evidence from Ghana (2010, background): “Foreign presence in a sector has a negative effect on all domestic and a positive effect on most foreign-owned firms, at least those with a majority foreign ownership, both in the entire (columns (1) and (3)) as well as the domestic firms only (columns (2) and (4)) sample.”
Foreign Direct Investment - Growth Nexus: A Review of the Recent Literature (2008, neutral): “Although this relationship is highly heterogeneous across countries generally agree that FDI, on average, has an impact on growth in the Granger-causal sense.”
Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Motivating Factors and Policy Issues (2009, result): “These implications accord with empirical evidence on the determinants of FDI regarding the positive factor correlations (Asiedu, 2002).”
FDI and Growth : a Causal Relationship (2005, background): “…of the relationship between domestic investment and FDI, Blomstrom and Kokko (1998) for a critical review of the role of FDI in technology transfer, Asiedu (2002), Chakrabarti (2001) and Tsai (1994) on the determinants of FDI and Asiedu (2003) for an excellent discussion of the relationship…”