期刊名称:Annals of Dunărea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics
印刷版ISSN:1584-0409
出版年度:2010
期号:2
出版社:Dunarea de Jos University of Galati
摘要:The objective of the present study is to estimate the impact of foreign direct investments on human capital development in 32 Subsaharan African countries over the period 1980 – 2005. Human capital is captured by the percentage of children in full-time education in primary and secondary schools. Panel data regressions are used for the estimations. The results show a correlation not only between FDI and the percentage of children in fulltime education in primary school but also between the FDI and the percentage of children in full-time education in secondary school. These results are not significant for that. This shows that FDI directed towards Sub-Saharan Africa still remain insufficient. That is why a lot of effort should be made in order to favour the attraction of FDI in this part of the continent. The other variables which have a positive and significant impact on the percentage of children in full-time education are: the domestic investment rate, public sector expenditures, life expectancy at birth and the growth rate of the gross domestic product per capita.
关键词:Foreign Direct Investment; Human Capital; Sub-Saharan African Countries