The Impact of RCEP on Trade and FDI for East and Southeast Asian Economies

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the world’s largest free-trade agreement, brings together a diverse group of 15 economies, to mutually benefit from an expansion in regional trade and investment, through reduced trade barriers and tariffs and enhanced regulatory coherence. This partnership will undeniably reshape regional economic dynamics. To better understand the ability of the RCEP to reshape the economic dynamics in the region, it is essential to evaluate its impact on trade and foreign direct investment (FDI).

Book of Abstracts: Trade and FDI Facilitation in the IORA Region

It is with great pleasure that we present the Book of Abstracts of the International Conference on International Trade and Investment (ICITI 2025), held on 25–26 September 2025 at the Voilà Hotel Bagatelle, Mauritius, under the theme “Trade and FDI Facilitation in the IORA Region.” 

Differentiation, labor market and globalization

We consider two countries with initially one firm in each country and the possibility for each firm to invest in the other country or commercialize its products, and for workers to immigrate (Common Labor Market; CLM). Interestingly, when firms compete on the product market with no competition on the labor market (Goods’ Mobility; GM), they do not differentiate their qualities. However, when competition is introduced in both markets (Foreign Investment; FI) firms differentiate their products.

The impact of foreign direct investment on Namibia’s economic growth: A time series investigation

Abstract

The current study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on the growth of Namibia’s economy from 1990 to 2020 using the ARDL cointegration method. The results reveal that FDI, the interactive variable of FDI and trade openness, and other macroeconomic variables such as domestic investment, government consumption expenditure, human capital, a proxy for economic stability, and return on investment are responsible for Namibia’s economic growth.

Investment, Exchange Rate and Exports Nexus in South Africa’s Automotive Industry

The automotive industry is one of the South African industries that contribute to the manufacturing output and exports and plays important to the country’s economic performance. However, the export volume from this industry depends on various economic factors that include foreign direct investment, domestic investment and exchange rate volatility. The current study aims to determine empirically these three variables on the export volume in the South African automotive industry.

The Impact of the Investment Climate on Foreign Direct Investment in Africa

This paper investigates the impact of investment climate on FDI in Africa using a dataset that spans 2000 to 2018. It also hypothesised that the relationship between investment climate and FDI could vary by country classification as a landlocked, least developed (LDC), natural resource-abundant or has a developed financial market system (DFM). The system's GMM and the fixed-effect model with Driscoll-Kraay standard errors results show that investment climate is critical for FDI in Africa, resource-rich countries and those with DFM.

Cadernos Cadernos Brasil na OCDE : Investimentos

Os temas dos investimentos estrangeiros e seus impactos sobre o desenvolvimento econômico são centrais a todo modelo de políticas públicas. O tema investimento direto abrange regras claras e estáveis para investidores e tomadores de investimentos sobre incentivos e taxações, medidas de proteção, medidas de atração ao investidor, bem como sobre práticas de liberalização ao movimento de capitais e de pagamentos de serviços realizados, além de medidas de tributação.
 

The Impact of Regional Integration on Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa

The main purpose of this study is to study the impact of Regional Integration on the attractiveness of Foreign Direct Investment in Sub-Saharan African countries. This investigation was carried out using a panel data analysis, over a sample of 30 countries for a time-period of 23 years, from 1996 to 2018. To account for the modelling of dynamics and to establish the short-run and long-run relationships between Foreign Direct Investment, the Unrestricted Vector Autoregressive model was employed.

The Effect of Mining foreign Direct Investment Inflow on the Economic Growth of Zimbabwe, with Gochero, in Journal of Economic Structures

The study employs the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to examine the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) in the mining sector on the Zimbabwe economy, while controlling for both non-mining FDI and domestic investment. Using data over the period 1988–2018, this research results show that foreign direct investment in the mining sector has a signifcant positive relationship with the country’s GDP in the long run. Mining FDI is revealed to have relatively higher efects as compared to FDI in non-mining sector and domestic investment.

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