Determinants of FDI and their Impact on Economic Growth in Uganda

By M. Obwona. 2001

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Information Systems

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Citations in the corpus

• Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Freedom and Growth: New Evidence from Latin-America (2003, unknown): “Macroeconomic and institutional stability seem to have been crucial for Uganda’s attractiveness for foreign investment (Obwona, 2001) and for Asian countries in attracting US investment (Lipsey, 1999).”
• Investigating the Relationship between Health and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of 5 Asian Countries (2010, background): “Theoretically, investment contributes to economic growth by generating technological diffusion (see, Obwona, 2001; Borensztein et al., 1998).”
• FDI and Economic Growth: Evidence from Nigeria (2007, background): “Interestingly, Obwona (2001) also found an inverse relation between trade balance and FDI in Uganda.”
• Does Infrastructure Really Explain Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa? (2016, background): “…to a counry’s attractiveness for foreign direct investment and promotes xport-orientation of production of multinational enterprises. imilarly, Obwona (2001) argues that poor infrastructure faciliies, especially in transport, communications and information echnologies, are major impediments…”