Essays about: "FDI Effects"

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  1. 16. Foreign Direct Investment and Welfare: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Aida Ranjkeshan; [2021]
    Keywords : Sub-Saharan Africa; Foreign Direct Investment; Poverty; Human Development; HDI; Fixed Effects; General Method of Moments; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is often considered to be favorable to long-run economic growth and has in recent years been promoted as a poverty-reducing tool. Although FDI to developing countries has increased rapidly in recent decades, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been unsuccessful in attracting large inflows of FDI. READ MORE

  3. 17. Chinese FDI and Debt-trap Diplomacy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Jonas Fallenius; [2021]
    Keywords : Foreign direct investment; China; Sub-Saharan Africa; debt-trap diplomacy; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This empirical study seeks to initiate a new field of study. Through panel data analysis the relationship between Chinese FDI, non-Chinese FDI, and government debt in Sub-Saharan Africa is investigated. The model is expanded to include resource endowment and political stability variables. READ MORE

  4. 18. Aging Populations and FDI Outflows - Exploring the effects of increasingly older populations on present and future levels of foreign direct investment

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Johannes Fälth; [2021]
    Keywords : Aging population; Demographics; FDI; International capital; Economic growth; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Most of the world’s rich countries are experiencing increasingly high life expectancies and low fertility rates. Fewer people of working age need to somehow support the many elderly, which puts pressure on the economy to reprioritize and change. READ MORE

  5. 19. Do foreign direct investments impact carbon dioxide emissions in countries with low and medium human development? : An empirical study on 60 countries between 1970 and 2018

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper

    Author : Lara Dehghani; Simon Reiter; [2021]
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    Abstract : This thesis examines the relationship between foreign direct investments (FDI) and carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) for 60 countries with low and medium human development between 1970-2018. To investigate the relationship between FDI and CO2 both directly and indirectly through increasing rates of GDP, the method used in this investigation is an ordinary least squares (OLS) panel regression with logarithmic FDI inflows (lnFDI) and logarithmic gross domestic product (lnGDP) as independent variables and included year and country fixed effects. READ MORE

  6. 20. Every Flow Must Have Its Ebb - The Impact of the Financial Crisis on FDI Flows: A Comparison Between Euro and Non-Euro Countries

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Henrietta Tuomaila; Martina Hellberg; [2021]
    Keywords : Currency Union; Euro; Financial Crisis; FDI; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Previous research has found that the euro increases FDI flows, yet the evidence of to what extent the EMU membership enhances FDI flows differs between studies. This thesis aims to estimate the impact the financial crisis has had on FDI flows and to further compare the impact the crisis has had on the euro countries to non-euro countries. READ MORE