Foreign Ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do Governance Structures Matter?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41110%2F20%3A83817" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41110/20:83817 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/18/7698" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/18/7698</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12187698" target="_blank" >10.3390/su12187698</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Foreign Ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do Governance Structures Matter?
Original language description
It has been widely argued that governance structures have roles in the predominance of foreign ownership in Sub Saharan African countries. Our paper sought to challenge this conventional wisdom by investigating the ways in which country-level governance structures influenced the predominance of foreign holdings in Sub Saharan African countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The study used panel sampling annual data from thirty countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, with Ordinary Least Squares and Feasible Generalized Least Squares as our discussion estimators. Our statistical results reveal that there is a significant positive relationship between government effectiveness and the predominance of foreign ownership in Sub Saharan African countries. Furthermore, foreign ownership predominates in Sub Saharan African economies that have sound political stability and embrace effective and efficient regulations. Moreover, the relationship between corruption and the prevalence of foreign owner
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sustainability
ISSN
2071-1050
e-ISSN
2071-1050
Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
18
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1-16
UT code for WoS article
000543391800222
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85091201748