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The Effect of Macroeconomic Stability on Inward FDI in African Developing Countries

International Journal of Business Studies Review

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Title The Effect of Macroeconomic Stability on Inward FDI in African Developing Countries
 
Creator Shah, Mumtaz Hussain
 
Description In this study an attempt is made to gauge the importance of prudent macro-economic management in the location choice decision of foreign direct investors. Moreover, infrastructure availability, market size, trade liberalisation and economic development are also considered, for a set of forty-three African developing countries using annual data from 1990 to 2015.The results show that better infrastructure, liberalised investment and trade regimes have significant effects on FDI inflows to the African nations. Conjectured with the host market theory hypothesis, the size of the host market positively affects inward FDI. Moreover, prudent management of macro-economy and healthy business policies manifested through stable macroeconomic indicators increases the ability of the African developing countries included in the study to receive additional Foreign Direct Investment. These findings are insensitive to the use of different proxies used for the control variables.
 
Publisher KUST
 
Date 2016-12-12
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://intjourbsr.org/index.php/ijbsr/article/view/40
 
Source International Journal of Business Studies Review; Vol 1 No 1 (2016); 1-9
2521-0068
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://intjourbsr.org/index.php/ijbsr/article/view/40/33