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A Systems View Across Time and Space

Table 1 Summary of descriptive statistics

From: Determinants of foreign direct investment inflows to COMESA member countries: an integration of institutional and socio-economic factors

Variable

Mean

Std. Dev

Min

Max

FDI inflow

4.117471

4.084667

0.001843

23.04

Inflation

95.04198

45.39279

0.74

348.9924

Economic growth

6.015349

5.2986

− 1.967729

53.89

Trade openness

57.60455

26.61584

11.41

170.4072

Infrastructure

19.95988

7.737889

2.000441

40.67

Government effectiveness

28.68593

20.57774

0.9478673

81.73

Political stability

30.19916

23.57146

0.5291005

88.57

Regulatory quality

29.22669

19.27386

0.4901961

83.65

Control over corruption

31.47561

20.86742

0.9478673

77.88461

External debt

247.0005

365.8153

11.67037

3128.959

Human capital

45.7218

22.30593

10.08816

97.93816

Financial development

24.20297

23.7592

0.2098308

119.6487

  1. Descriptive statistics were used to describe basic features of the data in this study. This table presents summary statistics for the variables used in the analysis for 17 countries between 2002 and 2016