This chapter examines the main policies employed to attract multinational corporation (MNC) technological activities in China, India, Ireland, Israel, Singapore, and Taiwan in order to analyse the case of Brazil. Foreign ...

As part of the increasing globalization of economic activities, international production by transnational corporations is growing rapidly. The World Investment Report 1996 provides an analysis of current global and regional ...

To provide the student the elements to understand how the economny functions, its structure and the relationship between its main variables such as investment, savings prices, among others.

Monetary policy seeks to promote economic expansions or contractions by managing interest rates or money supply. The impact of these mechanisms on businesses depends on their ability to make predictions about the development ...

The paper reflects on the implications of the foreign investment protection and promotion agreements (fipa) and the investment chapters of the free trade agreements (fta) for countries with a level of development similar ...

Fuel is a self-depleting resource and long term dependency on this commodity alone will not suffice. An export trade oriented approach can lead to faster industrialization while diversification leads to economic sustainable ...