Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Local Community in Ethiopia

This book examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on socio-economic, and the environment of the local community in the Dangote cement factory in Ethiopia. Specifically, it focuses on four themes¿labor, landholders, infrastructures, and environment. The book reveals that FDI has both positive and negative effects on local laborers. On the other hand, the FDI affected the landholders because of the inadequacy of compensation and the existence of corruption during the estimation of the compensation, low level and habit of landholders to save and use cash properly, absence of enough precondition to resettle the landholders, absence of continuous training for landholders on how to save money, expropriation of landholders from their lands which violated the right to use land, loss of diversified mode of income and become dependent on only paid compensation. In contrast, foreign direct investment has more positive effects on both infrastructures and the environment.