Determinants of foreign direct investments into the Southern African Development Community Region: the case of financial sector development, institutional quality and financial openness.

Makalima, Sisonke

Title: Determinants of foreign direct investments into the Southern African Development Community Region: the case of financial sector development, institutional quality and financial openness.
Creator: Makalima, Sisonke
Subject: Investments, Foreign (International law)
Date: 2022-03
Type: Master's theses
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/21948
Identifier: vital:51856
Description: The SADC region is a 15-member states grouping. Countries in the region have experienced low growth coupled with high levels of poverty and inequality. Attracting FDI to the region has been top priority. However, much is still to be realised. The study employed the Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) technique for the period 1980 to 2019. Empirical results show that financial sector development and financial openness are important determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. The results also showed that institutional quality is also a very important variable in determining the inflow of FDI, even though its effect is conditional on financial sector development and financial openness. These results imply that countries with good institutional framework, as well as a developed financial sector and are financially open tend to attract more capital inflows in the form of FDI, thereby creating adequate conditions to boost private sector and investment abroad. Countries in the SADC region should therefore pursue policies which are aimed at improving the institutional framework, the level of financial sector development and further enhance the openness of their financial openness.
Description: Thesis (MCom) (Economics) -- University of Fort Hare, 2022
Format: computer
Format: online resource
Format: application/pdf
Format: 1 online resource (90 pages)
Format: pdf
Publisher: University of Fort Hare
Publisher: Faculty of Management and Commerce
Language: English
Rights: University of Fort Hare
Rights: All Rights Reserved
Rights: Open Access

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Determinants of foreign direct investments into the Southern African Development Community Region: the case of financialsector development, institutional quality and financial openness.

Determinants of foreign direct investments into the Southern African Development Community Region: the case of financial
sector development, institutional quality and financial openness.