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Relationship between foreign capital flows, domestic investment and savings in the SADC region

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The importance of foreign capital in the domestic economy cannot be underestimated as it bridges the gap between domestic capital demand and supply. Given this background the paper studies the relationship between the different types of foreign capital flows in the Southern Africa Development Region (SADC) region – foreign direct investment (FDI), remittances, cross border bank flows (CBF), overseas development assistance (ODA) – and domestic savings and investment, employing the panel cointegration test and the dynamic ordinary least squares method (DOLS). The empirical results reveal that there is a strong positive relationship between domestic investment and domestic savings, FDI and remittances. These findings indicate that FDI remittances help in overcoming the limits on the domestic capital formation in the SADC region through permitting a rate of investment which is in excess of that which can be generated by domestic savings. Important policy implications on attracting foreign capital flows are discussed in the paper.

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  • Forget Mingiri Kapingura, 2018. "Relationship between foreign capital flows, domestic investment and savings in the SADC region," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(4), pages 554-568, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:deveza:v:35:y:2018:i:4:p:554-568
    DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2018.1487279
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