NATIONAL ECONOMIC SECURITY MATTERS AS PARAMETER OF FDI REGULATION UNDER ETHIOPIAN INVESTMENT LAW

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dc.contributor.author JIBRIL MOHAMMED ADEM
dc.contributor.author KASIM KUFA (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF LAW)
dc.date.accessioned 2025-01-17T07:15:06Z
dc.date.available 2025-01-17T07:15:06Z
dc.date.issued 2024-04
dc.identifier.uri http://ir.haramaya.edu.et//hru/handle/123456789/8203
dc.description 108 en_US
dc.description.abstract The main subject of this paper is to examine the rules that regulate FDI for national economic security matters protection under domestic investment laws of Ethiopia. Evaluating the Ethiopian law of FDI screening is important at the time when a number of countries have been changing their approach to FDI screening for the national economic security ground and securing the advantage of FDI by guarantying their sovereignty. In line with the dynamic field of the law of FDI, Ethiopia has currently enacted a new investment regime. However, the country is tackling with two interconnected issues: namely, a question of attracting foreign investors for purpose of sustainable economic development and gaining foreign capital (the access question) and a question of designing a proper foreign investment regulatory framework for domestic national economic security matters (a regulation question). The challenges surrounding these two questions are the subject of the study, Hence, this paper evaluates the rules i.e. entry procedure rules, sector specific exclusion rules, foreign ownership restriction rules, entry condition rules and performance requirement rules that are applicable to the screening of FDI in general and for the national economic security matters protection in particular in Ethiopian investment regime and tests their level/extent/ degree of control by using a qualitative methodology, specifically doctrinal method of doing research. The researcher found that, the issue of foreign direct investment regulation for national security matters under Ethiopian domestic investment law is not as such transparent and not consistence subject matter and left for policy matters which make it ambiguous and very bureaucratic. In addition, the paper after evaluating the rules that applies to FDI for the protection of national economic security give some recommendations which enable the investment regime of Ethiopia to include a clear provision for FDI screening mechanisms, measures should be proportional, entrance procedure should be less bureaucratic. In sum, Ethiopia needs to have a specific and specified national security exception in both its domestic investment laws and BITs, according to the researcher en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Haramaya University en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Haramaya University, Haramaya en_US
dc.subject FDI Regulation, Investment, FDI screening, National economic security matters en_US
dc.title NATIONAL ECONOMIC SECURITY MATTERS AS PARAMETER OF FDI REGULATION UNDER ETHIOPIAN INVESTMENT LAW en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US


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