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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Labour Market Adjustment, Foreign Direct Investment and Human Resource Development
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Back Matter
About this book
How can Africa, the world’s most lagging region, benefit from globalisation and achieve sustained economic growth? Africa needs greater investment by Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) to improve competitiveness and generate more growth through positive spill-over effects. Despite the fact that Africa’s returns on investment averaged 29% since 1990, Africa has gained merely 1% of global Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows. The challenge for African countries is how to be a more desirable destination for FDI. The study integrates three currents of economic research, namely from the literature on (endogenous) economic growth, convergence and regional integration, the explanations for Africa’s poor growth and the growing understanding of the role of MNEs in a global economy. The empirical side of the book is based on an econometric study of the determinants of FDI in Africa as well as a detailed firm-level survey conducted in 2000.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Economics, University of Paderborn, Paderborn
Bernard Michael Gilroy, Thomas Gries
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Research Unit People, Policy and Performance, North West University, South Africa
Willem A. Naudé
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multinational Enterprises, Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in Africa
Book Subtitle: South African Perspectives
Editors: Bernard Michael Gilroy, Thomas Gries, Willem A. Naudé
Series Title: Contributions to Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138321
Publisher: Physica Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-0276-4Published: 20 October 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7908-1610-5Published: 30 March 2006
Series ISSN: 1431-1933
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 312
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Economics, Economic Growth