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 | | Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to identify, using the framework of a statistical model, the extent to which policy changes in Canada specifically directed toward inward foreign direct investment (FDI) have influenced both capital outflows to Canada and capital outflows from Canada. | | | In Canada's case, freetrade agreements (FTA and NAFTA) appear to have significantly increased levels of inward and outward foreign direct investment; however, Canada's attempt to screen FDI via the Foreign Investment Review Agency (FIRA) had no significant effects on either FDI or ODI. | | | There are three main results: the coefficient estimates for FDI are higher than those for trade in the standard model; the importance of the trade channel is much reduced once FDI is included; and the overall spillovers increase significantly with the inclusion of FDI. |
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http://copenhagen.jibs.net/MainArchive/YearArchive.asp?Issue=3&Year=1999
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| | Foreign Direct Investment, Ireland, US, Europe, Inward Investment, Inflow, Outflows, FDI, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belguim, Poland, Russia, Asia, America, Africa, Australia: Finfacts Ireland |
| | Global foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in 2004 are estimated to have risen by 6% to $612 billion, according to UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) data released on January 11, 2005. | | | Indeed, UNCTAD´s Inward FDI Performance Index, a measure of a country´s attractiveness to FDI, shows that such economies as the Czech Republic; Hong Kong, China; and Ireland continued to attract significant investment even during the FDI recession. | | | Thus, between 1990 and 2002, the value of total inward FDI stock in electricity, gas and water rose from an estimated $10 billion to $144 trillion (mainly due to a large increase in FDI in electric power generation and distribution). |
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http://www.finfacts.com/biz10/foreigndirectinvestmentireland.htm
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| | FDI in India well below potential: IMF- The Times of India |
| | While China remains predominant location for FDI inflows, it said there are some signs of a reallocation of FDI inflows within Asia. | | | In Asia, FDI continued to rise in 2004, particularly in India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. | | | But FDI has been hindered in India by a difficult investment climate and by caps on FDI in certain sectors. |
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1239759.cms
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| | Froot, Kenneth A.: Foreign Direct Investment |
| | Over the past decade, foreign direct investment (FDI) around the world has nearly tripled, and with this surge have come dramatic shifts in FDI flows. | | | Chapters cover such topics as theoretical accounts of FDI patterns, the growth of multinational enterprises, and the FDI experiences of Japan, the United States, and selected developing countries. | | | This volume will interest economists, government officials, and business people concerned with FDI today. |
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http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/12523.ctl
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| | UNCTAD.ORG >> FDI Statistics |
| | UNCTAD´s Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development compiles comprehensive data and other information on flows and stock of foreign direct investment (FDI), operations of transnational corporations (TNCs), investment treaties and methodologies of FDI of all countries worldwide since 1990. | | | The Division maintains the FDI/TNC database, the cross-border mergers and acquisitions database, the largest TNCs database, and investment treaty database on FDI and related indicators (e.g., FDI performance and potential indices) for about 200 countries and economies. | | | This FDI statistics web section provides seven separate domains in which the principal data, covered by these databases, are presented. |
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http://www.unctad.org/fdistatistics
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| | Quang Ninh lures more FDI |
| | Quang Ninh has finalised its FDI list for 2004-10, and is devising measures to attract more FDI, such as publishing investment booklets and launching a website. | | | QUANG NINH The north-eastern border province of Quang Ninh attracted US$4.7 million in foreign direct investment (FDI) this month. | | | So far this year, Quang Ninh has attracted more than $94.88 million in FDI, accounting for approximately 95 per cent its yearly target. |
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http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/2004-10/28/Stories/20.htm
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| | fDi Magazine: US & Canadian Cities of the Future |
| | fDi will be inviting investment promotion agencies, economic development agencies, city offices and local governments to supply information about their area and to give reasons as to why their location should win one of these prestigious fDi awards. | | | fDi will be inviting investment promotion agencies, economic development agencies, city offices and state governments to supply information about their area and to give reasons as to why their location should win one of these prestigious fDi awards. | | | Throughout Q1 and Q2 2005 fDi will be conducting a benchmarking exercise to discover the Best Canadian City and the Best Canadian Province for 2005/06. |
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http://www.fdimagazine.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/922/US___Canadian_Cities_of_the_Future.html
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| | FDI Inflows To ESCWA Region Fall Away From 1998 Peak |
| | The causes of the ESCWA (and wider Middle East) region’s poor performance in attracting FDI are widely attributed to regional instability and the structural weaknesses of regional economies. | | | ESCWA total should be interpreted as the sum of FDI inflows to each ESCWA member country. | | | The ESCWA figures show that the region’s small share of world FDI diminished to a tiny 0.16% in 2001, while the region’s share of FDI to developing countries has also shrunk to just 0.58%. |
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http://www.mees.com/postedarticles/finance/capital/a47n11b03.htm
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| | Businessworld: There are spanners in the works |
| | The original thinking on foreign investment had been that the FII limit is exclusive of the FDI limit; that direct investment should be delinked from portfolio investment. | | | The FII limit is 24 per cent and can be raised to the FDI limit in each sector subject to special procedures. | | | This if he takes care of the statutory caps, which are of three types: separate caps on FDI and FII (e.g., DTH-broadcasting has a composite ceiling with a sub-ceiling for FDI at 20 per cent), ban on FDI with a cap on FII (e.g. |
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http://www.businessworldindia.com/oct2504/news02.asp
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| | New Economist: FDI flows: Is China crowding out the rest of Asia? |
| | New Economist: FDI flows: Is China crowding out the rest of Asia? | | | FDI flows: Is China crowding out the rest of Asia? | | | China's dramatic success in attracting FDI has raised concerns that it may have diverted investment inflows from other Asian countries. |
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http://neweconomist.blogs.com/new_economist/2005/10/china_and_fdi_f.html
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| | WTO News - “Trade and foreign direct investment” |
| | Table 1 also calls attention to the fact that the leading host economies for FDI are, for the most part, also the leading home economies for FDI (the names of the latter are in bold). | | | When the focus is on interlinkages, the question of whether FDI and trade are substitutes or complements is of secondary importance. | | | This can represent up to 60 per cent of outward FDI in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom. |
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http://www.wto.org/English/news_e/pres96_e/pr057_e.htm
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| | FDI Flows: A Critical Look |
| | Recently, a striking feature of FDI flows has been pointed out: the share of FDI in total inflows is higher in riskier countries, as measured either by countries' credit ratings for sovereign (government) debt or other indicators of country risk | | | The apparently desirable property of FDI flow resilience during crises in fact may reflect a distortion in the secondary market for equity assets. | | | Claessens, M. Dooley, and A. Werner demonstrate that a common characterization of FDI as "cold" capital flows and foreign portfolio investments as "hot" capital flows, is inconsistent with the data. |
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http://www.nber.org/reporter/spring02/razin.html
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| | Government Policies, Market Imperfections, and Foreign Direct Investment |
| | (3) Some of the effects of government policies on market imperfections and FDI are the opposite of those previously noted in the FDI literature. | | | This paper reexamines the effects of government policies on market imperfections and foreign direct investment (FDI). | | | It broadens and refines the analysis of the impact of government policies by developing the following arguments: (1) There is a wide range of government policies that affect firms' FDI decisions via their effects on market imperfections. |
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http://www.palgrave-journals.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/jibs/journal/v24/n1/abs/8490227a.html
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| | France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | With 47 billion USD of foreign direct investments, France ranked above the United States (39.9 billion USD of FDI received), the United Kingdom (14.6 billion USD of FDI received), Germany (12.9 billion USD of FDI received), or Japan (6.3 billion USD of FDI received). | | | Existence as a separate entity begins with the division, in 843, of Charlemagne 's Frankish empire into eastern, central and western parts. | | | A member of the G8 group of leading industrialised countries, it ranked as the fifth-largest economy in the world in 2004, behind the United States, Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France
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| | UNIDO - Service Module 2: Investment and Technology Promotion - Overview |
| | This service module identifies the critical factors pertinent to enabling developing countries to become more competitive in attracting FDI, overcoming barriers to FDI, and maximizing the impact of FDI on sustainable, equitable and environmentally friendly industrial growth. | | | While FDI increased globally from US $52 billion in 1980 to US $1.3 trillion in 2000, the amount was unevenly distributed, with the developed countries remaining the prime destination and accounting for more than three-quarters of global inflows in the year 2000. | | | This service provides assistance in undertaking technology foresight activities in industrial sectors, regions and countries in order to identify key technology issues and trends, assess threats and opportunities in a systematic way, and develop scenarios, leading to strategic formulation and planning in order to meet the technological needs of the future. |
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http://www.unido.org/doc/5067
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| | GN Online: Joint bid to woo FDI urged |
| | Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Al Hariri, and Mohammed Al Gergawi, Dubai Development and Investment Authority (DDIA) Chairman, stressed the need for joint efforts to attract foreign direct investments (FDI). | | | The call for joint efforts to attract FDI was one of the highlights of the many meetings that Al Gergawi held with other Arab officials participating in the Arab Investment and Capital Markets Conference in Beirut. | | | GN Online: Joint bid to woo FDI urged |
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http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=88589
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| | The US has taken the lead during this period by investing US$ 118.6 million and Britain as is at second position with FDI of US$ 84.8 million. | | | The Netherlands share to inflow of FDI is 23.8 percent, Japan 23.8 percent, Hong Kong 14.8 percent, UAE 12 percent and others 167.2 percent during the first half of this fiscal from July to December 2004. | | | The FDI in the correspondent of the financial year 2003-04 touched US$ 277 million. |
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http://www.pakistanlink.com/Headlines/Jan05/24/11.htm
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| | Finance & Development, June 2001 - How Beneficial Is Foreign Direct Investment for Developing Countries? |
| | As a result, the fraction of domestic investment actually financed by foreign savings through FDI flows may not be as large as it seems (because foreign investors can repatriate funds borrowed in the domestic market), and the size of the gains from FDI may be reduced by the domestic borrowing done by foreign-owned firms. | | | Foreign direct investment (FDI) has proved to be resilient during financial crises. | | | FDI is not only a transfer of ownership from domestic to foreign residents but also a mechanism that makes it possible for foreign investors to exercise management and control over host country firms—that is, it is a corporate governance mechanism. |
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http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2001/06/loungani.htm
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| | Direct Foreign Investment |
| | In the terms of Figure 11.1, the foreign country is the host economy, the country that receives the FDI, and the country where decision making control resides is the donor (or home) country. | | | As Dunning (1988: 15) points out, FDI involves issues of direct control as resources are transferred internally within firms rather than externally between independent firms. | | | Foreign direct investment (FDI) is referred to throughout the book and it is the focus of chapters 11 and 15. |
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http://www.sfu.ca/~hayter/fdi.htm
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| | UNCTAD.ORG >> Foreign Direct Investment |
| | Detailed statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) and operations of transnational corporations (TNCs) in selected countries are available at the World Investment Directory on-line. | | | The FDI database presents aggregate inflows, outflows, inward stocks and outward stocks of foreign direct investment (FDI) for 196 reporting economies in an interactive format. | | | UNCTAD compiles statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI). |
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http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=1923&lang=1
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| | Policies to Attract Foreign Direct Investment - Papers and Links - Private Sector Development - The World Bank Group |
| | This paper analyzes the foreign direct investment (FDI) regime in Pakistan with special attention to the effects of tax concessions in reducing the cost of capital. | | | This paper examines the degree to which foreign direct investment (FDI) is attracted to particular sectors in a country on the basis of the available domestic skills. | | | This paper examines the telecommunications sector from the point of view of foreign direct investment (FDI), focusing on countries where the telecom sector is closed to FDI. |
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http://rru.worldbank.org/PapersLinks/ReadingList.aspx?topicid=10
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| | OECD Observer: 2000, the euros annus miserabilis? |
| | Furthermore, the surge in foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows from the euro area in the late 1990s was accompanied by an equally spectacular rise in FDI inflows, and in 2000, FDI inflows almost matched FDI outflows. | | | As the euro kept falling, proponents of central bank intervention on the foreign exchange markets became more vocal, emboldened by the fact that at well over 250 billion euros, the reserves of the Eurosystem are among the highest in the world. | | | Euro area finance ministers agreed during 1999 to exercise restraint in their comments about the exchange rate, and now generally base their pronouncements on language agreed in common, in co-operation with the ECB. |
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http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/492.html
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| | education & training news : Examinations and Assessment Calendar 2005 |
| | Closing date for submission of candidates to the October examinations (FDI Unit 2, FDI Unit 3 and CDE Unit 4) | | | Closing date for submission of candidates to the April examinations (FDI Unit 2, FDI Unit 3, CDE Unit 4 and CDE Unit 5) | | | If you have any queries, please contact the Teaching Modules Administrator in the Examinations Department. |
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http://www.istd.org/training/news/2004/december2004/examassescalendar.html
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| | EconPapers: Endogenous Market Structures and the Gains from Foreign Direct Investment |
| | In the second scenario, headquarters are run in both countries and the FDI regime is compared to the intraindustry trade case. | | | Abstract: This paper discusses the gains from liberalizing foreign direct investment (FDI) in a two country setting with endogenous market structures. | | | If multinational and national firms coexist, market concentration occurs and FDI is welfare improving for the foreign country, but welfare declining for the domestic country. |
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http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/ecjac2002/56.htm
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| | Legal Aspects of Foreign Direct Investment |
| | The authors of this book are all concerned with FDI as either academics or practicioners and come from a variety of legal, academic and geographical backgrounds. | | | The book consists of three parts: first, a general introduction on FDI by Dr. Escher; next, an analysis on the emerging international law on FDI and related areas; and finally, an overview of FDI law in a variety of countries in Asia, Africa, Latin-America, and Europe. |
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http://www.cyberhaven.com/businessbooks/investing4/9041112146AMUS194022.shtml
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| | EconPapers: Explaining Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern |
| | Abstract: In this paper, we question whether there is a catch-up effect or announcement effect in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from the European Union (EU) to the ten EU accession countries. | | | We study FDI outflows from the Netherlands, a small open economy with few historical ties to Eastern Europe, and compare FDI in the transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe to FDI in other regions - most notably to transition countries in Central Asia. | | | We find that many of the differences in results of previous studies can be attributed to these specification problems. |
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http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/dnbdnbwpp/008.htm
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| | Prof Nigel Driffield, PhD Director, Aston Business School, Aston Univeristy |
| | Driffield N and De Propris L, (2006) 'FDI, clusters and technology sourcing.' The Cambridge Journal of Economics, forthcoming. | | | Driffield, N.L. (2006) 'On the search for spillovers from FDI with spatial dependency'. | | | Driffield, N., De Propris, L. and Menghinello, S. (2005) 'Local Industrial Systems and the Location of FDI in |
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http://www.abs.aston.ac.uk/newweb/staff/detail.asp?sfldStaffID=A0000498
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| | UN Publications: World Economic Situation and Prospects 2002 |
| | As transnational corporations reposition themselves for the more price-driven environment created by the slow-down of the world economy and as developing countries liberalize their regulatory frameworks further, there may be a redistribution of FDI towards developing countries, particularly since reinvested earnings are increasing. | | | The key to restoring flows of FDI to developing countries remains economic growth since, the report argues, "the basic factors determining these flows have not changed" and "the potential for FDI is far from exhausted in many developing countries". | | | The report also reports on flows of FDI among developed countries, showing them to have declined dramatically in 2001, mainly because of the halving of cross-border mergers and acquisitions. |
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http://www.un.org/Pubs/whatsnew/e02047pr.htm
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