Population Health, Infrastructure Development and FDI Inflows to Africa: A Regional Comparative Analysis

Economic Growth and FDI Inflows: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Despite plausible theoretical grounds for presuming a positive relationship between foreign direct investment inflows (FDI) and economic growth, existing empirical evidence on this nexus is inconclusive. In an effort to add to the empirical literature, this paper estimates the relationship between FDI and the rate of growth of GDP using a stochastic frontier model and employing panel data cover...

Economic Infrastructure, Private Capital Formation, and FDI inflows to Hungary: A Unit Root and Cointegration Analysis with Structural Breaks

This paper investigates the important question of what relationship, if any, exists between economic infrastructure, gross fixed capital formation, and FDI inflows to Hungary during the 1995-2012 period. Although this question has great significance from an economic policy standpoint, there has been little to no empirical analysis undertaken so far in the case of transition economies such as Hu...

applying transitivity theory to gender analysis of efl textbook: : a comparative study.

efl/esl textbooks have been regarded as essential language teaching materials with which the learners spend about 70 up to 90 percent of their class time. the important role they play and their vast use make them not only influential in learning the language but also in shaping values and attitudes. put it another way, textbooks socialize learners using their contents (i.e. texts, illustrations...

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The Effects of ODA in Infrastructure in FDI Inflows in Provinces of Vietnam, 2002-2004

The study investigates the impacts of official development assistance (ODA) on the inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) in 64 provinces of Vietnam in 2002–2004. These impacts are examined using both the two-stage least squares method and the fixed effects/random effects model. The regression results give evidence of the positive impacts of ODA in infrastructure on FDI inflows, not only by...