This article examines how Chinese foreign aid interacts with the quality of host country's governance in shaping state-owned enterprises' (CSOEs') direct investment (FDI) Africa. By analyzing firm-level greenfield FDI data CSOEs between 2003 and 2014 distinguishing China's official development assistance less concessional forms aid, we reveal two main findings. First, negatively affects CSOEs' ...

This paper analyzes the contribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) to economic growth in Côte d’Ivoire, for period 1980–2019. We use World Development Indicators (World Bank) database. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) cointegration approach results show that, short and long-run, FDI negatively impacts d’Ivoire. conjecture that these are due predominance extractive Indeed, sector i...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) has boomed in post-reform India. Moreover, the composition and type of FDI has changed considerably since India has opened up to world markets. This has fuelled high expectations that FDI may serve as a catalyst to higher economic growth. We assess the growth implications of FDI in India by subjecting industry-specific FDI and output data to Granger causality tes...

The practices of newly emerging economies are evaluated on the basis two indicators international integration: attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) and pace trade growth. Based these criteria, it must be acknowledged that Vietnam’s economy is deeply integrated into economic community. Currently, Vietnam has implemented 17 free agreements (FTAs) linked to aforementioned important macroecon...

In this paper we re-examine the regional determinants of FDI in China using both total FDI flows, and FDI flows disaggregated by entry mode. Building on both the FDI location and entry mode choice literatures, we argue for the existence of mode-specific location advantages, and test for their existence. We first specify and estimate a location model of aggregate FDI flows to Chinese regions. Us...

Stable political environment and prominent development of institutions increase foreign direct investment flows by providing lower risks for investors. However, this impact can vary according to the country. This study aims investigate various indicators stability on attraction different economies distinguished their level. Our database includes 66 FDI-recipient countries 98 FDI-investing perio...

According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), tourism is critical a country's economic development. It acts as catalyst for direct and indirect job creation, growth, attraction of foreign investment (FDI). To this end, present study looks into relationship between growth (GDP), domestic credit (DC), (TR), FDI, CO2 emissions selected Mediterranean countries. This employs pa...