{"id":10475,"date":"2022-11-24T23:51:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T22:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowrywise.com\/blog\/?p=10475"},"modified":"2022-11-24T23:51:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T22:51:58","slug":"foreign-direct-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowrywise.com\/blog\/foreign-direct-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Foreign Direct Investment?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a business decision to invest or acquire a stake in a foreign business or outrightly buy it out for expansion into another region or country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FDI is not limited to only stock investment in a foreign company. It can involve establishing a full-blown business in a foreign country as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Continue reading<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"#examples\">Examples of Foreign Direct Investment<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"#types\">Types of Foreign Direct Investment<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"#nigeria\">How to attract Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"#beneficial\">How Beneficial is Foreign Direct Investment for Developing Countries?<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"#factors\">Factors affecting Foreign Direct Investment<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"examples\">Examples of Foreign Direct Investment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are different ways in which an individual, corporate entity, or the government of a country can invest in a foreign country: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Mergers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A merger occurs when an operating business in a country decides to merge or combine its operational activities with another business or company in a foreign country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is often done when the company needs expansion into a foreign nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Acquisition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Acquisition is one of the most commonly used strategies in FDI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It happens when an individual, company, or government decides to buy out another business in a foreign country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The value of money or cash transferred for the acquisition can be referred to as FDI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A relatively recent example is the acquisition of <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/10\/15\/stripe-acquires-nigerias-paystack-for-200m-to-expand-into-the-african-continent\/\">Paystack<\/a>, a payment processing company in Nigeria by Stripe, which is another company in the United States of America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This acquisition was carried out as an expansion effort into the Nigerian-African market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Partnerships<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A partnership is a situation where a business or government of a country comes together to carry out collaborative business activities for the benefit of the parties involved.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a partnership, depending on the agreement made, there is always a benefit attached to the parties involved, which could be qualitatively or financially measurable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These three are the most common examples of foreign direct investments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other examples of FDI can be through Manufacturing, Sales Offices, Facilities, Retail, Logistics, and Research and Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"types\">Types of Foreign Direct Investment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Horizontal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>With a horizontal FDI, an individual or corporate entity establishes or invests in the <strong>same<\/strong> type of business operation in another foreign region or nation of the world just as her original type of operation in her home country.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as the example of Paystack, Stripe and Paystack operate in the same line of business, which makes it a horizontal type of FDI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Vertical<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In vertical foreign direct investment, a business or government body of a nation invests, establishes, or buys out another <strong>complementary<\/strong> business in a different country or nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a vertical type of foreign investment, a company does not invest in a company that operates in the same line of business as hers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It could decide to invest in another company in another region, providing her with raw materials for her operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Conglomerate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In a conglomerate foreign direct investment, an individual or business entity invests in a business in another country that is <strong>not related<\/strong> to its original line of business operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A conglomerate FDI is different from a horizontal or vertical foreign direct investment because it does not focus on a business that is in the same line or in relation to its core line of operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/my.cowrywise.com\/signup?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=in_article&amp;utm_campaign=signup_organic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"221\" src=\"https:\/\/cowrywise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/investing-CTA-Card-1-1024x221.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowrywise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/investing-CTA-Card-1-1024x221.png 1024w, https:\/\/cowrywise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/investing-CTA-Card-1-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/cowrywise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/investing-CTA-Card-1-768x166.png 768w, https:\/\/cowrywise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/investing-CTA-Card-1-1536x332.png 1536w, https:\/\/cowrywise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/investing-CTA-Card-1-360x78.png 360w, https:\/\/cowrywise.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/investing-CTA-Card-1.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"nigeria\">How to attract Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a recent This Day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisdaylive.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/31\/initiating-catalysts-for-foreign-direct-investment\/\">report<\/a>, an investment-friendly environment helps contribute to and attract foreign direct investment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government of Nigeria at all levels needs to create a friendly environment for businesses to thrive to attract FDI which will further help to improve the state of the economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government needs to look into issues like providing good road networks, stable power supply, little to no import duties fees, a labour reward system, and favourable policies &amp; regulations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To attract FDI into the country, the government will need to implement different strategic policies which will enhance and encourage FDI into the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"beneficial\">How beneficial is Foreign Direct Investment for developing countries?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>FDI helps in contributing to the financial status of a nation through the payment of tax and other levies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FDI also impacts the lives of a country&#8217;s citizens through the provision of employment, improvement in the standard of living of the people, increase in per capita income, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"factors\">Factors affecting Foreign Direct Investment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Political instability<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The periodic changes in the leadership of a foreign nation can affect the operational activities of a company\u2019s foreign direct investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Changes in the exchange rate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Over time, there have been insistent fluctuations in the exchange rates of currencies of different countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These changes could affect the value of the foreign direct investment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For instance, when exchange rates appreciate, it increases the cost of production in a country as a result of currency depreciation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Modern-day economic colonialism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Many countries do not encourage foreign direct investment, because of the fear of modern-day <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neocolonialism#:~:text=Economic%20neocolonialism%20extracts%20the%20human,in%20the%20global%20economic%20system.\">economic colonialism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bottom Line<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>FDI is a substantial part of the Gross Domestic Product of many smaller, underdeveloped, and developing countries. 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