Do FDI and Public Investment Crowd in/out Domestic Private Investment in the SADC Region?

Eslon Ngeendepi and Andrew Phiri
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Eslon Ngeendepi: Nelson Mandela University, South Africa

Managing Global Transitions, 2021, vol. 19, issue 1 (Spring), 3-25

Abstract: Our study examines the crowding-in/out effect of foreign direct investment and government expenditure on private domestic investment for 15 members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for the period 1991–2019. The study employed the panel Pool Mean Group (PMG)/ARDL technique in estimating the short-run and long-run cointegration relationships between FDI, government capital expenditure and domestic private investment and adds three more variables for control purposes (interest rate, GDP growth rate and trade openness). For the full sample, FDI crowds-in domestic investment whilst government crowds-out domestic investment. However, in performing a sensitivity analysis, in which the sample was segregated into low and high income economies, both FDI and government investment crowd-in domestic investment whilst government expenditure crowds-out domestic investment in lower income SADC countries with no effect of FDI on domestic investment. Policy implications are discussed.

Keywords: FDI; domestic investment; SADC countries; PMG estimators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C22 C33 E22 O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.26493/1854-6935.19.3-25

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