Oluyomi Ola-David Insights

This is my testimony o!  I was just handpicked by His mercy, favour, grace, and compassion. I was just picked by hand as opposed to a machine process. I was just elected  by Him personally. I was just elected for His personal ends. I was just cherry-picked. I was just chosen by Him o. I was just culled for His purpose. I was just eected by His Majesty. I was just named by His grace. I was just opted for by His Sovereignty.  I was just picked by His Mighty Hand. I was just preferred by His Most Excellency. I was just selected from the multitude o. I was just singled out of the pack. I was just tagged by His Providence. I was just taken to the Palace. I was just sorted and settled, but now I am fully loaded with grace! Amen! My Benefactor is the Most High Lord of hosts, Who rules and reigns in human affairs! My praise of Him is limitless!

Developing countries, usually considered ‘latecomers’ in development, can create learning opportunities for themselves through channels of knowledge diffusion and technology transfer such as international trade and foreign direct investment.  For instance, ownership-specific advantages of multinational corporations, which make up the majority of large corporations in developing countries, could spill over to the domestic environment through consciously built learning relationships (in forms of forward and backward linkages). Mauritius is an African success story of structural transformation resulting from export-oriented FDI stimulated through the creation of special economic zones. Now that foreign investment promotion has become central to the industrial policies of most African economies, it is important to evaluate how much of the positive trends in FDI inflows are associated with local learning and improvements in local ways of doing things. Put differently, is FDI to