The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Trade Balance: The Case of Sub Saharan Africa
| dc.contributor.advisor | Manohar, J (Dr) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bessir, Mengistu | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-29T06:39:55Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-19T08:38:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-10-29T06:39:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-19T08:38:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Economists usually consider that FDI affects import share and export share positively. But the nature of FDI flow varies across regions there by having different impacts on the region under study. This paper examined the impact of FDI on trade balance and its components (export and import) for sub saharan africa region . This paper empirically proved that FDI affects import share and export share positively and at a statistically significant level. The results from cross sectional and panel data regression reveal that the impact of FDI up on trade share, import share and export share is strong . Almost all the regression results indicate that FDI affects these variables at a 1 % significance level. However the magnitude of FDI in import share is consistently higher than that of export share; indicating that the net impact of FDI on trade balance is negative. moreover this paper proved that import tax does not affect import share at a statistically significant level in the case of Sub Saharan Africa. This may be due to the fact that most of sub Saharan Africa imports are structural and do not respond sensitively to price increment | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/28391 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | A.A.U | en_US |
| dc.subject | Direct investment on trade balance | en_US |
| dc.subject | The case of Sub-Saharan Africa | en_US |
| dc.subject | The Effect of Foreign | en_US |
| dc.title | The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Trade Balance: The Case of Sub Saharan Africa | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |