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Natural Resources, Quality of Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment in SubSaharan Africa

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  • Feulefack Kemmanang Ludovic
  • Ngassam Sylvain Bertelet

    (University of Dschang-Cameroon)

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An analysis of statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows reveals that some countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which are heavily endowed with natural resources and have internal conflicts, have managed to attract significant FDI. This study sought to determine whether it is possible that, for the same countries with weak institutions, some foreign investors can be attracted to invest in them while others are systematically repelled. We found that weak institutions are favourable to FDI inflows into the extractive sector, while they crowd out FDI into other sectors. Thus, resource-rich countries do not need institutional reforms to attract FDI.

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  • Feulefack Kemmanang Ludovic & Ngassam Sylvain Bertelet, 2021. "Natural Resources, Quality of Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment in SubSaharan Africa," Working Papers 421, African Economic Research Consortium, Research Department.
    • Handle: RePEc:aer:wpaper:421
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