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A Systems View Across Time and Space

Table 2 Fixed effect regression output

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

Dependent variable: inflow of foreign direct investment as percentage of GDP

Independent variables

Fixed-effects (within) regression

Coef.

Robust Std. Err.

t

P >|t|

Cons

− 6.690876

1.795646

− 3.73

0.000

Inflation

0.0021649

0.0020005

1.08

0.281

Economic growth

0.0024137

0.0175018

0.14

0.890

Infrastructure

0.0522313

0.0159253

3.28

0.001

Trade openness

0.0052198

0.0057275

0.91

0.364

Government effectiveness

0.0193232

0.010888

1.77

0.078

Regulatory quality

0.0121991

0.0074781

1.63

0.106

Political stability

0.0049155

0.01078

0.46

0.649

External debt

− 0.0003498

0.0002128

− 1.64

0.104

Human capital

0.0211325

0.0072873

2.90

0.005

Financial development

0.0027036

0.0066638

0.41

0.686

Control over corruption

0.0547151

0.0259236

2.11

0.053

 

Number of obs = 182

F(13,154) = 17.48

Prob > F = 0.0000

R-squared = 0.7221

Adj R-squared = 0.6443