The study highlights the significance of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to the
Southern African Development Community (SADC) economies. The first objective
focuses on analysing the SADC investment policies pertaining to FDI. FDI instruments
available at the regional and national levels are analysed. The study takes an in-depth
look at the various activities by Investment Promotion Agencies (IPAs) currently
existing for SADC member states (MS). The existing policy instruments are key in
attracting FDI and the policy architecture will largely determine the extent to which FDI
will flow to different countries.
The second objective focuses on reconciling the evidence on the determinants and
impact of FDI in the SADC region. Through a systematic literature review, various
literature reports pertaining to FDI have been analysed. Journal articles were collected
from the UNISA library by means of a standard database search criterion through
Scopus, Web of Science and EconLit search engines ranging from 1960 to 2019. The
database was built based on known published and unpublished empirical papers for
FDI in SADC.
Out of the 554 journals investigated, 346 were found to be relevant to the study, with
114 journal articles contributing to the qualitative study. Through its quality
assessment, descriptive statistics and qualitative synthesis provided a summary of the
samples and measures utilized in a study through the measures of central tendency
(mean and median) and dispersion - how spread out the data is (standard deviation).
The results showed a higher mean value for general case studies reporting 0.53 with
a standard deviation of 0.23. The standard deviations of variables indicated less
spread or variability in the data collected over the years of the estimation period 1990
to 2019, indicating the results being more reliable. In conclusion, the study highlights
the need to address the investment environment by addressing challenges such as
political instability and wide differences in tax incentives. / Economics / M.. Com. (Economics)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:unisa/oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/27754 |
| Date | 02 1900 |
| Creators | Khomunala, Avhasei |
| Contributors | Nhamo, Senia |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | 1 online resource (xii, 158 leaves) : illustrations, application/pdf |
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