Determining the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in South Sudan | Chapter 4 | Current Topics on Business, Economics and Finance Vol. 2

 The study proposed at determining the impacts of FDI on South Sudan. The dossier collection approach complicated a review of secondary dossier based on ethnographic design. Two believes were involved; the point-based approach and the uniform FDI fitness believes in order conduct to study. The results of the study are very main and form a braod base of information. Apart from deciding that South Sudan has not been smart to fully influence FDI, the study also persistent that FDI has failed to increase South Sudan’s economy what poverty levels in the country wait high. Additionally, it was famous that despite limited improvements in FDI levels, South Sudan's nationals continue to person who waits on another poverty and the country with its own government is still wracked by a sustained civil war that has demanded thousands of lives. The main tactics implication of the study is that South Sudan needs to take healthy steps to create a governmental, social, and financial environment that will captivate more foreign direct assets in to the country.

Author(s) Details:

Tamburo Michael Renzi,
Department of Business Management, LIGS University, Honolulu, HI, USA.

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Ensuring Sustainability in Financing Cross-border Infrastructure Investments| Chapter 8 | New Visions in Science and Technology Vol. 2

 Cross-border infrastructure initiatives can help Asia economically and socially. If the required $8 trillion investment in pan-Asian connectivity in the region's infrastructure is made between 2010 and 2020, total net income gains for developing Asia could reach $12.98 trillion (in 2008 US dollars) between 2010 and 2020 and beyond, with more than $4.43 trillion gained between 2010 and 2020 and nearly $8.55 trillion gained after 2020 [1]. By facilitating the movement of goods, services, and human resources, producing economies of scale, promoting trade and foreign direct investments, creating new business opportunities, stimulating inclusive industrialization, and closing development gaps between communities, countries, and sub-regions, infrastructure connectivity helps improve regional productivity and competitiveness. Despite this, progress in the creation of cross-border infrastructure in the region is slow due to a lack of funding. The goal of this paper is to look at the major obstacles to cross-border project financing and discuss the roles that various stakeholders—national governments, state-owned enterprises, private sector, regional entities, development financing institutions (DFIs), affected people, and civil society organizations—can play in facilitating cross-border infrastructure development. This paper, in particular, highlights the major risks that deter private sector investments and FDIs, and suggests that, in order to achieve the multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), more attention should be paid to sustainability-related measures and adaptation standards [2]. The integration of environment-social-governance (ESG) elements contributes to a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient environment for cross-border infrastructure projects. Recommendations based on worldwide experiences are also presented to handle the funding demands and hazards associated with cross-border initiatives.

Author (S) Details

Jyoti Bisbey
International sustainable development finance specialist, US.

Dr. Lili Li
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Qingyang Gu
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Ching-Yuan Chu
Senior associate in the Valuation Advisory Service at Duff & Phelps, Taiwan

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