Aggregated and sectoral analysis of FDI determinants in Africa: the role of infrastructure, financial development, and formal and informal institutions.
Journal: Nottingham Trent University's Institutional Repository (Nottingham Trent Repository)
Year: 2024

This thesis investigates the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for all African economies, with a particular focus on the roles of infrastructure, institutional quality (both formal and informal), and financial development. Addressing previously underexplored structural factors, the study adopts a multi-method empirical strategy, grounded in the theory of location-specific advantages (North 1990; Dunning 1998). The first empirical chapter (Chapter 3) employs Poisson Pseudo Maximum L