Repression, Regime (In)stability, and Foreign Direct Investment in Autocratic Developing Countries

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Brief Overview

In this paper, I examine why repression promotes the inflows of FDI in some autocratic developing countries and not in others. Specifically, I identify regime instability as a political factor that conditioned the effect of repression on FDI inflows.

Author

• Oluwaseun Emmanuel Okajare, Texas Tech University