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Direktinvesteringar och korruption, en oväntad vänskap

Tröhler, Mikael LU ; Folkvi Söderström, Felicia and Lundin, David (2021) STVA22 20211
Department of Political Science
Abstract
This study assesses whether foreign direct investment affects corruption in the recipient countries. The case that we have chosen to use is foreign direct investment from China to sub-Saharan African countries between the years 2003-2016. In total we used 44 African countries for the purpose of this study. Two methods were used, a quantitative one and a qualitative one. The quantitative study measures the amount of foreign direct investment the sub-Saharan countries received from China as well as the amount of corruption. We then looked at the data from the quantitative study to use two countries for the qualitative study, where we used a most similar systems design. Overall we see that an increased amount of foreign direct investment... (More)
This study assesses whether foreign direct investment affects corruption in the recipient countries. The case that we have chosen to use is foreign direct investment from China to sub-Saharan African countries between the years 2003-2016. In total we used 44 African countries for the purpose of this study. Two methods were used, a quantitative one and a qualitative one. The quantitative study measures the amount of foreign direct investment the sub-Saharan countries received from China as well as the amount of corruption. We then looked at the data from the quantitative study to use two countries for the qualitative study, where we used a most similar systems design. Overall we see that an increased amount of foreign direct investment reduces corruption in the recipient country. (Less)
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author
Tröhler, Mikael LU ; Folkvi Söderström, Felicia and Lundin, David
supervisor
organization
alternative title
Bidrar Kina till minskad korruption i Afrika?
course
STVA22 20211
year
type
L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
subject
keywords
Korruption, statskapacitet, utländska direktinvesteringar, Kina, Afrika
language
Swedish
id
9044528
date added to LUP
2021-07-06 13:18:22
date last changed
2021-07-06 13:18:22
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  abstract     = {{This study assesses whether foreign direct investment affects corruption in the recipient countries. The case that we have chosen to use is foreign direct investment from China to sub-Saharan African countries between the years 2003-2016. In total we used 44 African countries for the purpose of this study. Two methods were used, a quantitative one and a qualitative one. The quantitative study measures the amount of foreign direct investment the sub-Saharan countries received from China as well as the amount of corruption. We then looked at the data from the quantitative study to use two countries for the qualitative study, where we used a most similar systems design. Overall we see that an increased amount of foreign direct investment reduces corruption in the recipient country.}},
  author       = {{Tröhler, Mikael and Folkvi Söderström, Felicia and Lundin, David}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Direktinvesteringar och korruption, en oväntad vänskap}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}