Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Growth and Financial Sector Development in Small Open Developing Economies

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oluwatosin Adeniyi ◽  
Olusegun Omisakin ◽  
Festus O. Egwaikhide ◽  
Abimbola Oyinlola
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Financial Sector Development

Foreign Direct Investment and Growth Symbiosis: A Semiparametric System of Simultaneous Equations Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine McCloud ◽  
Michael S. Delgado ◽  
Subal C. Kumbhakar
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Institutional Quality ◽  
Simultaneous Equations ◽  
Asymptotically Normal ◽  
Methodological Tool

AbstractWe characterize the types of interactions between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth, and analyze the effect of institutional quality on such interactions. To do this analysis, we develop a class of instrument-based semiparametric system of simultaneous equations estimators for panel data and prove that our estimators are consistent and asymptotically normal. Our new methodological tool suggests that across developed and developing economies, causal, heterogeneous symbiosis and commensalism are the most dominant types of interactions between FDI and economic growth. Higher institutional quality facilitates, impedes or has no effect on the interactions between FDI and economic growth.

scholarly journals Causal Relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Nigeria: 1970-2013

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uwazie I. U. ◽  
Igwemma A. A. ◽  
Nnabu Bernard Eze
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Unit Root ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Unit Root Test ◽  
Annual Data ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Causality Test ◽  
Long Run

Foreign direct investment is presumed to play immense role in economic growth in both developed and developing economies. This assumption has motivated the army of studies to actually determine the nexus between foreign direct investment and economic growth in Nigeria. But these studies were not unified on the direction of the causation, hence the need for the study. To effectively analyze the result, the study employs vector error correction model method of causality to analyze the annual data for the periods of 1970 to 2013. The Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) unit root test show presence of unit root at level but stationary after first difference. The Johansen cointegration test confirms that the variables are cointegrated while the granger causality test affirms that foreign direct investment and economic growth reinforce each other in the short run in Nigeria. Also, it is reported that foreign direct investment granger cause economic growth both in the short and long run in Nigeria. Based on these findings, the study advocates the adoption of aggressive policy reforms to boost investors’ confidence and promotion of qualitative human capital development to lure FDI into the country. It also suggests the introduction of selective openness to allow only the inflow of FDI that have the capacity to spillover to the economy. These will attract FDI and boost economic growth in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Foreign investment & growth in emerging economies: panel ARDL analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Appiah
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Positive Sign ◽  
Panel Ardl ◽  
Employment Conditions

The contributory role of foreign investment on growth in Africa recent years has received much consideration by researchers and policy makers. Studies on this area available are not clear. In most recent studies, foreign direct investment has emerged as a determining factor of economic growth. In light of this fact, the current study is an attempt to investigate the contributions of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing economies of Africa. This study uses yearly panel data for the period 1995-2015 for 5 developing economies of Africa. The results of Panel ARDL indicate that foreign direct investment has positive impact on economic growth as well as a positive sign of trade openness, inflation and labor. The study stresses that for increasing economic growth there is a need to seek more foreign investments, increase trade openness and inflation at the same time improve upon employment conditions in selected African developing countries.

scholarly journals Quest for Sustainable Growth, Does Foreign Direct Investment Still Matter? Evidence in Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-409
Author(s):  
Adewosi, O. Adegoke ◽  
Manu Donga ◽  
Adamu Idi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Fixed Effect Model ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Domestic Investment ◽  
African Countries

The debate on the role of Foreign Direct Investment in promoting rapid growth and development of the developing economies remain inconclusive. This paper examined whether FDI still matters in African Countries over the period of 1990 to 2017, with the proper utilization of panel data estimation technique on the annual country data that were sourced from world Governance and Development Indicators. Using random and fixed effect model, the results reveal that some important variables such as coefficient of trade openness, rule of law, political stability, capital formation and population positively determined economic growth in Africa countries, account for about 2, 1, 65, 170, and 396.7 percent increase in economic growth. While, FDI and inflation were found to have negative impact on economic growth accounting for 21.4 and 2 percent fall in economic growth over the study period. The study then recommends amongst others formulation and implementation of policies that encourage domestic investment in the continents.

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