Volume 06 Issue 3 (Nov 2018)
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How does Colombia attract foreign direct investment?
During the eighties, Latin America was surrounded by economic crises, increased external debt, and poor growth of the Gross Domestic Product as well as little attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI). Later in the nineties, some countries in the region inspired by the desir…
Informal economy as a cause for understating actual rates of entrepreneurship among blacks in the U.S. and in Africa
The study presents considerations for African countries that build off of Crump, Hill, and Taylor (2017). In that study, Crump et al. (2017) argue and present empirical evidence to support the notion that rates of black entrepreneurship (measured by black business ownership) in…
Interest rate and investment decisions: the Nigerian scenario
Interest rate policy is perhaps one of the most controversial policies in Nigeria and has drawn the attention of several scholars, thus, its contribution to the investment base of the economy remains unclear. This paper, therefore, examined the impact of interest rate on investm…
Determinants of foreign direct investment in Ethiopia: Systematic review
The determinants of FDI include any host country’s situations that affect the inflow of FDI, like market size, the economic growth rate, real growth domestic product, infrastructure, natural resource, the political situation etc. In recent years, Ethiopia has started…
Housing finance market and economic growth of West Africa region: a study of Nigeria and Ghana.
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of housing finance on economic growth of West African States while the specific objectives were to: analyse the contributions to housing finance by mortgage banks on the economic growth of Nigeria, examine the impact of aggregat…