This paper argues that official development assistance (foreign aid) is partly responsible for the lack of structural change in Africa. Africa’s development partners have devoted too few resources and too little attention to two critical constraints to private investment, infrastructure and skills, focusing instead on easily understood, but potentially low impact regulatory reforms. A new aid s...

Since 21st century, China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) has entered into a stage of fast development. The flow of China’s OFDI kept an increasing momentum and created new records continually even under the circumstances of more complicated external environment and slowdown pace of global economic recovery. As the rapid development of foreign direct investment (FDI), there still exi...

PE investment is comparatively mature in developed countries. Along with the growing of PE investment in China in recent years, hi-tech enterprises of high growth potential are favored by PE investor. However, hi-tech enterprises in China are short of sufficient skills of strategy for bringing in foreign capital and objective qualifications in introducing PE investment. Therefore, this article ...

Abstract The study examines the growth effects of foreign direct investment on environmental quality in Nigeria between 1970 and 2013. Variables like per capita income, environmental degradation, foreign direct investment, human capital, inflation, trade openness, interest rate, and the interaction term between foreign direct investment and carbon emission were employed in the study. A long r...

With the initiation of globalization, developing countries, particularly those in Asia, have been witnessing a immense surge of FDI inflows during the past two decades. Even though India has been a latecomer to the FDI scene compared to other East Asian countries, its considerable market potential and a liberalized policy regime has sustained its attraction as a favourable destination for forei...