Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Motivating Factors and Policy Issues

By Frank L. Bartels, Sadiq N. Alladina, S. Lederer. 2009

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Subfields: Accounting, Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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The Role of the Investment Climate and Tax Incentives in the Foreign Direct Investment Decision: Evidence from South Africa (2011, background): “Sub-Saharan microeconomic work includes that of Bartels, Alladina, and Lederer (2009), who recently addressed the issue through a factor analysis of FDI in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries.5 They found that political economy and stability concerns outweighed those of incentives, which held…”
FDI Flows to Sub-Saharan Africa: The Impact of Finance, Institutions, and Natural Resource Endowment (2012, background): “Financial institutions provide transaction cost-reducing information on industries, markets and utility services to investors (Bartels et al., 2009).”
Knowledge Economy Gaps, Policy Syndromes, and Catch-Up Strategies: Fresh South Korean Lessons to Africa (2015, unknown): “This would stimulate private sector development and respond to the growing stream of literature on the need for investment in the continent (Anyanwu 2007, 2009) from recent African business literature (Rolfe and Woodward 2004; Bartels et al. 2009, 2014; Tuomi 2011; Darley 2012; Tchamyou 2014).”
Government Quality Determinants of Stock Market Performance in African Countries (2011, unknown): “…through other channels (Rolfe & Woodward,2004); (2) capital location decision in SSA is influenced by strongly political economy considerations (Bartels et al.,2009); and (3) political & regulatory uncertainty (Toumi,2011) and reducing corruption (Darley,2012) are crucial for capital flows.”
The Role of Knowledge Economy in African Business (2016, background): “Bartels et al. (2009) In the second strand on entrepreneurship, Alagidede (2008) has postulated that doing business in Africa is so risky.”
Information Asymmetry and Financial Development Dynamics in Africa (2016, unknown): “It is relevant to recall that the underlying issues of excess cash within formal banking establishments (Saxegaard, 2006; Fouda, 2009) represent one of the most important challenges in African business literature (Bartels et al., 2009; Tuomi, 2011; Kolstad & Wiig, 2011; Darley, 2012).”
The Impact of Chinese Investment in Africa (2010, unknown): “These factors, in addition to the absence of public goods needed to overcome government and market failure, are creating a unique situation that made it unattractive for other investors (Bartels, Alladina, and Lederer, 2009).”