The volume of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) towards developing countries has significantly risen during the 90's. The interest expressed in FDIs by developing countries is generally justified by many expectations: their impact on growth, the provision of financial resources, the openness to...

This paper analyzes the evolution of foreign direct investment [FDI] inflows for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa [COMESA]. We focus especially on the impact of its creation in 1994 on FDI performances for each member of the organization. On the whole, the results are twofold....