The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on the Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Case Study of Cameroon

dc.contributor.advisorFethi, Sami
dc.contributor.authorChetcho, Charles Djila
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-29T10:31:44Z
dc.date.available2017-05-29T10:31:44Z
dc.date.issued2015-07
dc.date.submitted2015
dc.departmentEastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Business and Economics Department of Business Administration.en_US
dc.descriptionMaster of Business Administration. Thesis (M.B.A.)--Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Business and Economics, Dept. of Business Administration, 2015. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sami Fethi.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis aims to empirically investigate the impact of Foreign Direct Investment on economic growth and other relatively important factors which stimulate the process of economic growth in the economy of Cameroon between the periods of 1970 to 2012 by conducting the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bounds testing approach for analysing the growth model derived. In order to explain the changes occurred in real GDP over the study period, the model retained two domestic factors (capital stock, and labor force), and one external factor Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as independent variables. Recent analytical techniques have been used to diagnose and check properties of time series data then, the model has been estimated to determine the short and long-term elasticities and their significance. The empirical results points out that in the short and long-term, domestic capital stock and labor represent the driving forces for economic growth in Cameroon. In addition, FDI was found to have a positive but insignificant impact on economic growth in both the long and short-term periods in the case of Cameroon. Error-correction model has been used to support the existence of a stable long-term relationship and confirm a deviation from the long-term equilibrium following a short-term shock corrected by approximately 13 percent after each year. Keywords: Economic Growth, Investment, FDI, labor, ARDL, Cameroon Economyen_US
dc.description.abstractÖZ: Bu tezin ana hedefi ampirik olarak Kamerun ekonomisindeki doğrudan yabancı yatırımın ekonomik büyüme üzerindeki etkisini ölçer. Ayrıca, fiziksel sermaye, ve işci gücü sayısı gibi diğer göreceli faktörlerin ekonomik büyüme üzerindeki uzun ve kısa dönemli ilşkisini otoregresif dağıtılmış gecikme test ile ölçer (ARDL). Otoregresif dağıtılmış gecikme testi kullanılarak 1970 ile 2012 yılları arasında Kamerun’un ekonomik büyümesi incelenmiştir. Gayri safi milli hasıla’daki değişimlerin açıklamak için iki içsel (sermaye, ve emek) birde dışsal faktör kullanılmıştır. Ampirik bulgular fiziksel sermaye, ve işci gücü sayısının hem uzun hemde kısa dönemli ekonomik büyüme üzerinde etkili olduğu belirlenmiştir. İleveten, doğrudan yabancı yatırımın ekonomik büyüme üzerinde uzun ve kısa süreli etkisi bulunamamıştır. Bunun paralelinde Kamerun ekonomisinde iş gücü’nün, fiziksel yatırımlardan ve diğer belirtilen faktörlerden daha etkin bir şekilde ekonomik büyümeyi etkilediği bulunmuştur. Kısa dönem hata düzeltme modelinde ise, tahmin edilen katsayıya göre uzun dönem dengesine ulaşma hızı yüzde 13 olarak hesplanırken kısa dönemli hatalar yıl bazında %13 düzelmektedir. Anahtar kelimeler: Ekonomik büyüme; otoregresif dağıtılmış gecikme testi (ARDL); Kamerun ekonomisi, fiziksel sermaye, doğrudan yabancı yatırımın, işci gücü sayısıen_US
dc.identifier.citationChetcho, Charles Djila. (2015). The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on the Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Case Study of Cameroon. Thesis (M.A.), Eastern Mediterranean University, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, Dept. of Business Administration, Famagusta: North Cyprus.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11129/3278
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEastern Mediterranean University (EMU) - Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi (DAÜ)en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryTez
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectBusiness Administrationen_US
dc.subjectEconomic Conditions and Development - Cameroonen_US
dc.subjectInvestments, Foreign - Cameroonen_US
dc.subjectEconomic Growthen_US
dc.subjectEconomic Growthen_US
dc.subjectFDIen_US
dc.subjectlaboren_US
dc.subjectARDLen_US
dc.subjectCameroon Economyen_US
dc.titleThe Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on the Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Case Study of Cameroonen_US
dc.typeMaster Thesis

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