This dissertation explores the concept of globalization as a new world era, and examines changes in the patterns of global FDI flows, with a focus on Extractive FDI inflows to Third-World or developing countries. It looks at the increased presence of multinational corporations (…
"8" Result
Sort By:
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is widely considered to be an essential source of capital fordeveloping countries. A broad consensus is developing amongst academics, multilateraldevelopment organisations and bilateral aid donors that a states' legal system is animportant factor …
In our increasingly globalised world, supranational regions, nation states and individual country regions are progressively more in competition with one another. How the nation state and region can become more competitive and how this competitiveness can be measured is open to d…
This dissertation contains three essays that deal with the political consequences of globalization. More specifically, these essays examine the constituency of globalization's losers, those that feel harmed by their country opening up to the international economy. The key questi…
This paper adds to the literature that examines the costs and the benefits of the Customs Union between Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus by measuring the impact of the Customs Union foreign direct investment in Kazakhstan. To evaluate the Customs Union's impact on foreign investm…
In the course of the 1980s, Turkey came to recognize the need to change its attitude towards foreign investment, assigning a significant role to direct foreign investment. Hence, after the 1980s, there was a significant increase in the number of foreign firms operating in Turkey…
The flow of foreign direct investment has long been regarded as the main engine of growth in developing countries. Lebanon has aimed at attracting foreign direct investment to contribute to its economic recovery in the post-civil war period. EU countries were expected to be a ma…