Foreign Ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa: Do Governance Structures Matter?

Seth Nana Kwame Appiah-Kubi, Karel Malec, Sandra Boatemaa Kutin, Mansoor Maitah (), Michael Chanda Chiseni, Joseph Phiri, Zdeňka Gebeltová, Sylvie Kobzev Kotásková and Kamil Maitah
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Karel Malec: Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Sandra Boatemaa Kutin: Department of Finance, College of Humanities, University of Ghana Business School, Accra 00233, Ghana
Michael Chanda Chiseni: Department of Economic History, Lund University, 220 07 Lund, Sweden
Joseph Phiri: Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Zdeňka Gebeltová: Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Sylvie Kobzev Kotásková: Department of Humanities, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Kamil Maitah: Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 18, 1-15

Abstract: 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 2010–2015. The study used panel sampling annual data from thirty countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, with Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) 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 ownership is negative but significant. However, the rule of law, and voice and accountability, are insignificant to the predominance of foreign ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our results suggest that governments in Sub-Saharan Africa should adopt robust and efficacious measures, strengthen their policies and institutions to promote the control of corruption, provide quality regulations, and minimize political violence.

Keywords: foreign ownership; corruption; political stability; government effectiveness; Sub-Saharan Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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