This dissertation examines the regional economic effects of foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI is known to have benefits for both national and regional economies. These benefits include an increasing number of higher paying jobs, productivity spillovers for local firms, and el…
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The purpose of this quantitative historical correlational study was to examine the degree to which the IMF’s intermediary economic policy role and FDI predict macroeconomic outcomes in the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Annual of IMF transactions and …
China seeks to be the "Leader of the Third World," and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a great tool to reach its ambitions. Because most developing countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), this thesis compares the impact of Chinese Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in Ang…
This dissertation explores the concept of globalization as a new world era, and examines changes in the patterns of global FDI flows, with a focus on Extractive FDI inflows to Third-World or developing countries. It looks at the increased presence of multinational corporations (…
There is a lack of adequate foreign direct investments (FDI) in the emerging markets of West Africa, especially in Nigeria. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that have led to inadequate FDI in Nigeria. Using the political risk model as the theoretical base, th…
Economic development, including foreign direct investment (FDI), is important for every country; however, it's vital in those countries that have gone through armed conflict and are living its aftermath. To improve on their predicament and fulfill their aspiration of becoming de…
Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) have been lauded as a primary modality for stimulating growth and for effecting positive social changes in developing economies such as Ghana. The problem is that FDI activity in economies such as Ghana has not developed into sustained and broad …
Some emerging markets have been leaders in the world and have grown at a higher rate benefiting from higher Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) by Trans National Corporations (TNCs) and some have been laggards and have not able to attract as much FDI and grow that efficiently. Why …
There is an intense race among countries toward attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and increasing capital inflows to achieve economic growth. The Multinational Corporations are considered the main contributors for capital growth and project financing for most countries r…
Recent researches in the field of international business have revealed the existence of a number of lacunae in the understanding of the function of subsidiaries in developing countries. This is particularly suggestive of the ways they operate in such countries, the ways they bui…
This dissertation investigates the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade on firm level decisions and examines the effect of policy changes on aggregate productivity and welfare in open economies. The first two chapters build an open economy model of …
This dissertation contains three essays that deal with the political consequences of globalization. More specifically, these essays examine the constituency of globalization's losers, those that feel harmed by their country opening up to the international economy. The key questi…
This dissertation contains three essays on technology adoption from foreign direct investment and exporting. The empirical analysis is based on a panel dataset of Indonesian manufacturing establishments from 1988 to 1996. The first essay examines how the technology that accompan…
The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the industrial restructuring of developing countries is of concern to host countries. Nowadays, most countries compete for international investment. Every country, including Indonesia, is aggressively attracting inward FDI to furthe…
This dissertation is a pooled time series, cross-sectional, quantitative study of the impact of international financial transfer on the level of democracy. The study covers 174 developed and developing countries from 1976 through 1994. Through evaluating the democracy and democr…
In this dissertation we study the determinants of foreign direct investment in Israel over the past two decades. We focus on the effects of the geopolitical events in the Middle East since the late 1980's and early 1990's, especially the peace process and the end of the Arab boy…
The problem. In spite of the fact that Egypt offers investors many investment incentives, the investment environment has not attracted USA investments as hoped. The symptoms of this phenomenon were: (1) A declining amount of USA capital invested in Egypt during 1986-1990. (2) A …
Why do child labor norms often fail to be transferred or enforced in developing countries even if the implementation of such norms already proved to have substantially reduced child labor practices in developed regions? In the field of international political economy, a number o…
Essay 1: Most of studies on developing countries have found evidence that international linkages, such as foreign ownership, exporting, or importing, affect productivity growth, but since these variables are correlated, it is hard to distinguish among their effects. This paper t…