Do FDI Inflows into African Countries Impact Their CO2 Emission Levels?

The Political Economy of Democracy and FDI Inflows in Oil Countries

Impact of Globalization on CO2 Emission in the Agricultural Sector

The increasing development of various industries and globalization in the past decades have caused concerns about environmental pollution. Thus, in recent years, the effects of economic activities and globalization on the environment have attracted the attention of many researchers due to efforts to achieve sustainable development, and extensive theoretical and empirical research has been condu...

Do they Translate into Greater Foreign Direct Investment Inflows?

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expresse...

Impact of E-Government on Transaction Cost and FDI Inflows: A Proposed Conceptual Framework

Although vast normative e-government literature supports the assertion that implementation of e-government reduces transaction cost and promotes Foreign Direct Investment; empirical evidence to support this thesis is limited. Even more, there is limited attempt when studying this phenomenon to integrate e-government literature with other literatures in which major constructs of interest are roo...

The Impact of FDI on CO2 Emissions in Latin America

This paper uses panel Granger causality tests to study the relationship between sector specific FDI and CO2 emissions. Using a sample of 18 Latin American countries for the 1980-2007 period, we find causality running from FDI in polluting intensive industries (“the dirty sector”) to CO2 emissions per capita. This result is robust to controlling for other factors associated with CO2 emissions an...