 The paper uses cross-sectional  data from the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS) from waves 5, as well as pseudo-panel data from GLSS waves 3-5 thus has a wide research base.Asiedu and Gyimah-Brempong use this data to analyze the data with the resource constraint model.In this paper, Asiedu, Dzigbede and Nti-Addae explore the rise of oil production and in Sub-Saharan Africa and its effect on foreign direct investment FDI, they authors also question the impact of FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa.