The mining sector contributes to South Africa s economic growth through tax revenue employment creation and export revenue Because of the abundance of the natural resource endowment of mining sector it attracts FDI in line with the natural resource rents it fetches However the sector is subject to countervailing forces that threaten to hamper prospects of a
Contribution of Manufacturing Sector to GDP 2006 2014 Source Ghana Statistical Service National Accounts Statistics Michael Porter s Five Forces of Competitiveness Source
The Ghanaian economy has been on an upward trajectory over the past three decades yet a number of challenges bedevil growth redistribution and sustainability
Examining the Ghanaian construction sector as a case with coeval data the paper unpacks the blind spots inherent in the assessment of technological advancements that are heavily reliant on the
This chapter critically examines the impact the mining sector has had in Ghana since its independence in 1957 1999 254 a direct result of the latter being insulated from the former by barriers and fences Ferguson 2005 would later elaborate on his initial diagnosis arguing that Usable Africa gets secured enclaves
This paper analyses the effects of Foreign Direct Investment FDI in Zambia It focuses on two main areas of FDI This first area looks at the competition effect of Foreign Direct Investment FDI
Foreign Direct Investment norms in the Indian defence sector liberalised further Page 2 1 Introduction In May 2020 the Indian Government as part of an economic stimulus package to respond to the Covid 19 pandemic announced a proposal to liberalize the foreign direct investment FDI framework in India for the defence sector
1 Introduction The Chinese dominant presence in Africa has become the subject of academic interest and attention spawning a vast literature China has come to be reckoned as a major trading partner and the second largest consumer of African resources since the early 2000s with 300 USD billion in investment currently on the table Ministry of
The study established that foreign direct investment into the mining sector hurts economic growth in Ghana in the long run but a positive in the short run The study also finds that private sector credit capital Imoughele & Ismaila 2013 Also none of these has considered the Ghanaian case To fill this vacuum in literature we
Sustained attractiveness to foreign investment China s foreign direct investment FDI has experienced consistent growth over the past few years From 2012 to 2022 China s share of global FDI increased from percent to percent a report published in September by the Development Research Center of the State Council shows
This study determined the impact of Foreign Direct Investment FDI on the domestic agricultural production with evidence from Autoregressive Distributed Lag ARDL model using time series data
The primary sector is vital for growth and sustainable development in emerging countries The combined effects of COVID 19 and geopolitical uncertainty on capital flows are likely to have profound
Foreign Direct Investment FDI has been viewed as a major stimulus to economic growth in developing countries Its ability to deal with two major obstacles; namely shortages of financial
For Ghana a developing agrarian economy that has promoted foreign direct investment for some decades now it is imperative to establish the relationship between foreign direct investments and
This paper examines the brinks of financial development at which foreign direct investment FDI enhances growth of the real sector We deploy a newly developed financial development dataset and Lewbel instrumental variable two step GMM estimator IV GMM with Kleibergen Paap robust SEs and orthogonal statistics in establishing our empirical
The primary sector is vital for growth and sustainable development in emerging countries The combined effects of COVID 19 and geopolitical uncertainty on capital flows are likely to have profound
The study re vealed that f oreign direct investment inflows substitutes domestic inve stment in ECOWAS region Export openness were found to be positively and negatively affect res pectively
The study accepted a neutrality hypothesis between foreign direct investment to the Ghanaian agricultural sector and its covariates; trade openness capital and government expenditure The study also revealed positive and significant relationship between economic growth and foreign direct invest flow to the agricultural sector and volume of
mining companies are negotiated and agreed upon Foreign Direct Investment in Mining An Opportunity and Challenge UNCTAD estimates that current Goals related investments in developing countries by the public and private sector combined are in the order of $ trillion and total annual investment needs to accomplish the Goals by 2030 are
During 2006 07 FDI inflows into India were more than double than those in 2005 06 Indeed during April January 2006 07 inward FDI into India at US$ billion was far higher than the annual
Foreign firms in Kenya have played a major role in enhancing economic growth in the agriculture sector especially in floriculture and horticulture Over a long period of time foreign direct investment FDI has been found to create many externalities in the Kenyan economy in the form of benefits available through transfers of general knowledge specific
This paper examines the brinks of financial development at which foreign direct investment FDI enhances growth of the real sector We deploy a newly developed financial development dataset and Lewbel instrumental variable two step GMM estimator IV GMM with Kleibergen Paap robust SEs and orthogonal statistics in establishing our empirical
Table 1 shows that Mongolia s total foreign investment reached USD25 billion during 2009 2018 of which % was invested in the mining sector Indeed the mining sector has played a significant role in Mongolia s economic development for a long time Reeves 2011 Mining agriculture and manufacturing production gross domestic product GDP and
Surface mining is described as the process of obtaining minerals and ores from the soil by excavating them from an open pit or a dugout Its operations need a huge area of land Amponsah Tawiah