Trends and impacts of China's FDI in Kenya

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Chapter 3. Methodology:
This research study took a qualitative and quantitative approach, with close textual analysis of the existing data, as well as discussions which were conceived as qualitative expert interview (from the Kenya embassy in Beijing and KIA officials). Auxiliary information was obtained from existing written literature, books, scientific papers, journals and interpretation of the existing information and data.
The applied methodology approach sought to answer the three research questions stated below:
I. What are trends of CFDI in different sectors (agriculture, tourism, manufacturing, and infrastructure development)?
II. Are there positive or negative impacts of CFDI in Kenya?
Using the simple regression Model: GDP (Y) = + beta0X0 + beta1X1 + beta2X2+beta3X3.
III. What are the opportunities and threats of CFDI in the Kenyan economy?
This study posed some difficulties due to the biasness of the data and lack of real-time information. The existing data was not comprehensive, thus, the researcher was faced with difficulties in the interpretation of the results.
4. Results and Discussions:
The data for this study was acquired from the Kenya Investment Authority (KIA), Kenya Beijing embassy 2014 data and interviews (Appendix D) with various experts providing a deeper understanding of the CFDI in Kenya. The types of CFDI are diverse they include; restaurants set-ups, car/motorbike or bicycle assembling, coffee or tea growing, toys manufacturing, cement manufacturing, road/ airports construction and real estate development among much more.
According to Kenya Investment Authority report 2014, most of the Chinese companies in Kenya are either fully owned by Chinese companies or are privately owned, hence very limited or no local capital. The capital cost is mainly foreign which is so much needed in the country. The foreign capital in 2014, averaged to 62231.28 (KSH in millions) and local capital of 726.05 (KSH in millions). With the