Relationship Between Political Risk, Corruption and Infrastructure and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Yemen

Relationship Between Political Risk, Corruption and Infrastructure and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Yemen

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) plays an important role in the growth and development of emerging economies. And it has been considered a powerful mechanism to achieve rapid economic growth in the developing countries. However Arab countries have been performing poorly in attracting FDI inflows rela...

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Main Author: Alrezaki, Mohammed Abdulkarem Mohammed
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Language:eng
Published: 2009
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HD61 Risk Management
HG Finance
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Relationship Between Political Risk, Corruption and Infrastructure and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Yemen
description Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) plays an important role in the growth and development of emerging economies. And it has been considered a powerful mechanism to achieve rapid economic growth in the developing countries. However Arab countries have been performing poorly in attracting FDI inflows relative to other developing countries since the early 1990s. This study examines the impacts of special host country factors namely political risk, corruption, and infrastructure on the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Yemen between 2003 and 2007. Results indicate that high levels of political risk and corruption lead to low levels of FDI inflows into Yemen. With political risk being significantly and negatively correlated to the FDI inflows. The findings also show that infrastructure variable with three proxies (road length, operating telephone line, and electric power generation capacity) are insignificantly and positively correlated with FDI.
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title Relationship Between Political Risk, Corruption and Infrastructure and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Yemen
title_short Relationship Between Political Risk, Corruption and Infrastructure and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Yemen
title_full Relationship Between Political Risk, Corruption and Infrastructure and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Yemen
title_fullStr Relationship Between Political Risk, Corruption and Infrastructure and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Yemen
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title_sort relationship between political risk, corruption and infrastructure and foreign direct investment inflows to yemen
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spelling my-uum-etd.36392022-04-21T03:34:16Z Relationship Between Political Risk, Corruption and Infrastructure and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Yemen 2009 Alrezaki, Mohammed Abdulkarem Mohammed Ahmad, Norafifah College of Business (COB) College of Business HD61 Risk Management HG Finance Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) plays an important role in the growth and development of emerging economies. And it has been considered a powerful mechanism to achieve rapid economic growth in the developing countries. However Arab countries have been performing poorly in attracting FDI inflows relative to other developing countries since the early 1990s. This study examines the impacts of special host country factors namely political risk, corruption, and infrastructure on the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Yemen between 2003 and 2007. Results indicate that high levels of political risk and corruption lead to low levels of FDI inflows into Yemen. 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