This study investigates the effect of currency union membership on foreign direct investment inflow to ECOWAS subregion. The employed panel dynamic ordinary least square (DOLS) to estimate a panel data of fifteen ECOWAS countries from 1995 to 2010 with the framework of gravity model. The result...

The segmentation of global manufacturing and services provided China and subsequently India with a golden opportunity to make full use of their absolute advantage – low cost yet educated labour-to integrate into the world economy within a comparatively shorter period of time than some earlier...