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The relationship between infrastructural development and foreign direct investment inflows and economic growth in developing countries

Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2014.

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spelling oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/44120 The relationship between infrastructural development and foreign direct investment inflows and economic growth in developing countries Birtch, Matthew ichelp@gibs.co.za Rungqu, Mandisi UCTD Investments, Foreign Infrastructure (Economics) Economic development Quantitative research Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. The last decade has seen a tremendous shift in global FDI inflows from developed to developing economies which has greatly benefited these countries to gain access to much needed capital to supplement their typical low domestic savings. The major focus of existing research conducted has been on developed countries and limited empirical work has acknowledged the role of infrastructure development in attracting FDI. Major aim of this is to assess the relationship between ICT, power and transport infrastructure and FDI inflows. Furthermore, the relationship between FDI and economic growth is also explored. Panel data analysis using the random effects model was utilised to analyse the abovementioned relationship on a panel of 27 developing economies between 2000- 2013. The developing countries were categorised into different categories based on income levels and mixed results were found across these levels. Unidirectional testing was performed in assessing these relationships. The direction was from infrastructure development to FDI and the latter to economic growth. When combining the developing countries together, the results show a significant and positive relationship between ICT, power and transport infrastructure and FDI inflows. FDI was also found to have a positive and significant relationship with economic growth. lmgibs2015 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA Unrestricted 2015-03-23T12:23:29Z 2015-03-23T12:23:29Z 2015-04-24 2014 Mini Dissertation Rungqu, M 2014, The relationship between infrastructural development and foreign direct investment inflows and economic growth in developing countries, MBA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44120> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44120 en © 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria
spellingShingle UCTD
Investments, Foreign
Infrastructure (Economics)
Economic development
Quantitative research
The relationship between infrastructural development and foreign direct investment inflows and economic growth in developing countries
title The relationship between infrastructural development and foreign direct investment inflows and economic growth in developing countries
title_full The relationship between infrastructural development and foreign direct investment inflows and economic growth in developing countries
title_fullStr The relationship between infrastructural development and foreign direct investment inflows and economic growth in developing countries
title_full_unstemmed The relationship between infrastructural development and foreign direct investment inflows and economic growth in developing countries
title_short The relationship between infrastructural development and foreign direct investment inflows and economic growth in developing countries
title_sort relationship between infrastructural development and foreign direct investment inflows and economic growth in developing countries
topic UCTD
Investments, Foreign
Infrastructure (Economics)
Economic development
Quantitative research
url http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44120