Determinants of FDI inflows to West Africa: Prospects for regional development and globalization

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dc.contributor.authorAromasodun, Ololade Mistura
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T19:08:11Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T19:08:11Z
dc.date.issued2022-05-22
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow into West Africa. FDI is regarded as the central engine for growth. Such inflows are not often satisfactory, both in terms of their volume and in terms of their sectoral distribution, particularly in developing countries. The study carried out a unit root test using the Im-Pesaran-shin (IPS) method, which revealed that four out of many variables were stationary at first difference, while other variables were stationary at level. Consequently, the Kao co-integration test methodology was used to analyze the long-run relationship. Thus, the regression analysis was carried out using the Panel ARDL method in an equation with a 50-year observation period. Concerning the remaining seven equations with shorter time series observations, the Pooled OLS estimation method was used to analyze the factors determining the inflow of FDI. The results indicate that financial development has a negative effect on FDI flows (and hence on globalization processes) in West Africa, while trade openness, institutional composite index and control of corruption have positive effects on FDI and hence increase globalization tendency. Based on these findings, the study recommends, among other things, that the authorities in West African countries vigorously pursue trade liberalization policy as an effort to globalize the region through FDI inflows. The study examined the macroeconomic determinants on FDI alongside institutional and socio-political determinants that are difficult to study in the case of West Africa as a region. The use of a composite institutional quality index, which combines multiple indicators of institutional quality, is another novelty of this research. Another unique contribution of the study is the use of the Africa Infrastructure Development Index (AIDI), which serves as a composite infrastructure index, as an explanatory variable.
dc.identifier.citationAromasodun, O. M. (2022). Determinants of FDI inflows to West Africa: Prospects for regional development and globalization. BRICS Journal of Economics, 3(1), 27–51. https://doi.org/10.3897/brics-econ.3.e83129
dc.identifier.urihttps://kwasuspace.kwasu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/1607
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherBRICS JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
dc.titleDeterminants of FDI inflows to West Africa: Prospects for regional development and globalization
dc.typeArticle
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