Determinants of investment in Muslim developing countries: an empirical investigation

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Salahuddin, Mohammad, Islam, Md. Rabiul and Salim, Syed Abdullah. 2009. "Determinants of investment in Muslim developing countries: an empirical investigation." International Journal of Economics and Management. 3 (1), pp. 100-129.
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Determinants of investment in Muslim developing countries: an empirical investigation

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AuthorsSalahuddin, Mohammad (Author), Islam, Md. Rabiul (Author) and Salim, Syed Abdullah (Author)
Journal TitleInternational Journal of Economics and Management
Journal Citation3 (1), pp. 100-129
Number of Pages10
Year2009
Place of PublicationSelangor, Malaysia
Web Address (URL)http://econ.upm.edu.my/ijem/vol3no1/bab08.pdf
Abstract

Investment has widely been regarded as one of the main driving forces of economic growth. Despite enormous growth potentials and resources, the overall investment rates of most of the Muslim developing countries are relatively lower than those of non-Muslim developing countries. Therefore, this paper attempts to investigate the gross investment behavior in a panel of 21 Muslim developing countries over the period of 1970 to 2002. Fixed Effects estimator is used to capture unobserved country specific effects. 2-Step 1 st Difference Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) dynamic panel estimator is employed to offset endogeneity of the regressors. Granger causality test is performed to see whether reverse causality exists. Robustness of estimated results using WDI (2004) data is checked by re-estimating the models using PWT (6.2) data. Results suggest that the lagged investment, growth rate of per capita real GDP, domestic savings, trade openness and institutional development have positive significant effect on investment. In addition, foreign aid and private sector credit are found to have significant positive impact on investment but not robust. Foreign debt servicing has consistent negative effect on investment. Other variables such as, inflation rate, lending rate, human capital and population growth have been found to have no significant effect on investment. Finally the study recommends that these countries should pursue policies that encourage more domestic resource mobilization reducing dependence on foreign debt and increase per capita real GDP growth, trade openness, domestic savings and institutional development in order to boost gross investment.

Keywordsinvestment; Muslim and developing countries; panel data
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020380110. International economics
380204. Panel data analysis
500405. Religion, society and culture
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Byline AffiliationsSoutheast University, Bangladesh
Monash University
Darul Ihsan University, Bangladesh
Institution of OriginUniversity of Southern Queensland
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