Author: Harinder Singh
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bernard Michael Gilroy
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-03-30
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 3790816108
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How can Africa, the world’s most lagging region, benefit from globalisation and achieve sustained economic growth? Africa needs greater investment by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) to improve competitiveness and generate more growth through positive spill-over effects. Despite the fact that Africa’s returns on investment averaged 29% since 1990, Africa has gained merely 1% of global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows. The challenge for African countries is how to be a more desirable destination for FDI. The study integrates three currents of economic research, namely from the literature on (endogenous) economic growth, convergence and regional integration, the explanations for Africa’s poor growth and the growing understanding of the role of MNEs in a global economy. The empirical side of the book is based on an econometric study of the determinants of FDI in Africa as well as a detailed firm-level survey conducted in 2000.
Author: Samuel K. Andoh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-02-05
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1351047272
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Economic Development in Ghana and Malaysia investigates why two countries that appeared to be at more or less the same stage of economic development at one point in time have diverged so substantially. At the time of their independence from the UK in 1957, both Ghana and Malaysia were at roughly the same stage of economic development; in fact, Ghana’s real per capita income was slightly ahead of Malaysia’s. Since then, Ghana’s development has been sluggish, while Malaysia’s economy has taken off into sustained growth and today, the real per capita income of Malaysia is about five times that of Ghana. This volume examines the pre-colonial and colonial economies of both countries, and the economic policies pursued after independence. In doing so, it aims to identify policies which might have contributed to Malaysia’s development and those which might have slowed Ghana’s. The authors ask whether lessons can be learned from the successes of countries such as Malaysia. This detailed comparative analysis will be useful to students and researchers of development economics as well as public policy makers in developing countries. It is written in language which makes it accessible to the general reader.
Author: Laura Gómez-Mera
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2014-12-03
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1464803722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study analyzes the characteristics, motivations, strategies, and needs of FDI from emerging markets. It draws from a survey of investors and potential investors in Brazil, India, South Korea, and South Africa.
Author: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Division on Transnational Corporations and Investment
Publisher: New York : United Nations
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Laurence Cockcroft
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Foreign investment is even less likely to meet Sub-Saharan Africa's rising foreign exchange and savings gaps in the 1990s than in the dismal 1980s. Investors interested in Sub-Saharan Africa are more likely to commit technology and management than equity capital. Economic activity and overall economic policy may be more effective at raising the total volume of investment than special fiscal and other incentives.