TY - JOUR T1 - Income Convergence and FDI: Evidence from Lower-Middle Income West African Economies AU - Murtala, Musa AU - Hassan, Sallahuddin JO - International Business Management VL - 9 IS - 5 SP - 706 EP - 711 PY - 2015 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1993-5250 DO - ibm.2015.706.711 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2015.706.711 KW - FDI KW -GDP KW -convergence KW -per capital income KW -long run relationship AB - This study examines the role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on real GDP per capita convergence among lower-middle income West African countries. Employing panel unit root (Im, Pesaran and Shin) and Pedroni panel cointegration model on annual data spanning 1986-2013, the study seeks to establish whether there exists a long run relationship between FDI and income convergence as measured by annual deviations of economies from the group averages. Results emanating from the study indicate that there is no long run relationship between FDI and per capita income convergence among the countries. ER -