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General & Applied Economics

Environmental risk and growth in foreign direct investment: Is the composition of FDI in sub-Saharan Africa a speculative type?

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Article: 2243695 | Received 12 Dec 2022, Accepted 28 Jul 2023, Published online: 08 Aug 2023

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