Macroeconomic Factors of foreign direct investment in Mauritania: empirical study during the period (1991-2020)

Authors

  • Malainine Mohamed VADEL Faculty of legal and economic sciences, Nouakchott University, Mauritania

Keywords:

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Market Size, Economic Openness, Infrastructure, Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Model

Abstract

This study aims to determine the impact of market size, infrastructure, economic openness, inflation rate, labor force and financial development on foreign direct investment flows into Mauritania during the period (1991-2020) using Autoregressive Distributed Lags model (ARDL) through the correlation, stationarity and co-integration tests. The results of the study concluded that foreign direct investment inflows lags, market size, infrastructure, economic openness, inflation rate and labor force plied an important role in influencing on the incoming foreign direct investment flows during this period. While financial development did not play a major role in determining these flows.  

Classification JEL : B22 C01 C32

Paper type : Empirical Research

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Published

2025-04-18

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VADEL, M. M. (2025). Macroeconomic Factors of foreign direct investment in Mauritania: empirical study during the period (1991-2020). International Journal of Accounting, Finance, Auditing, Management and Economics, 6(4), 477–490. Retrieved from https://ijafame.org/index.php/ijafame/article/view/1845

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Vol. 6 No. 4 (2025)

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