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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FINANCE & ECONOMICS
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 2651-2663Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ijfe.2555
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Africa; augmented mean group; FDI; globalization; multinational corporations; panel data
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Foreign direct investment serves as a significant source of capital inflow for African countries, and globalization plays a positive role in stimulating FDI development in Africa, with the economic dimension being the primary driving factor.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) provides many African countries an important source of capital inflow. Despite notable improvements in these capital-scarce countries' economic, political and social conditions, foreign investors have not considered them viable host locations. Since FDI brings enormous spillovers to its host, some countries have recently institutionalized globalization as the catalyst for reversing the trend. Against this backdrop, we examine the FDI-globalization nexus across 47 African countries for the 1996-2016 period. Using the augmented mean group estimator, the results suggest that FDI in Africa is indeed globalization-induced. Moreover, we find this positive nexus to be driven by the economic dimension of globalization. Overall, we demonstrate the potential of globalization in stimulating an FDI boom in Africa.
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