Foreign Direct Investment and Performance Requirements

Foreign Direct Investment and Performance Requirements
Author: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In theory foreign direct investment allows developing countries to integrate with international markets and develop their economies. However sometimes the benefits are less than expected and countries use performance requirements in an attempt to improve the situation. These requirements can be contentious, as developed countries often associate them with interventionist strategies whilst developing countries see them as tools previously used by the developed countries when they were industrialising. This book is a contribution to the debate based on four case studies (Chile, India, Malaysia, South Africa) and the experience of the developed world.

Performance Requirements and Investment Incentives Under International Economic Law

Performance Requirements and Investment Incentives Under International Economic Law
Author: David Collins
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2015-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1784712043

In this discerning book, David Collins provides an eloquent analysis of performance requirements and investment incentives as vital tools of economic policy. Adopting a consciously broad definition of both instruments, this work provokes a constructively critical assessment of their existing treatment under international economic law.

Foreign Direct Investment in China

Foreign Direct Investment in China
Author: Ms.Wanda Tseng
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2002-02-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451974175

China's increasing openness to foreign direct investment (FDI) has contributed importantly to its exceptional growth performance. This paper examines China's experience with FDI and identifies some lessons for other countries. Most of the factors explaining China's success have also been important in attracting FDI to other countries: market size, labor costs, quality of infrastructure, and government policies. FDI has contributed to higher investment and productivity growth, and has created jobs and a dynamic export sector. China's success, however, did not come without some pitfalls: an increasingly complex tax incentive system and growing regional income disparities. Accession to the WTO should broaden China's "opening up" policies and continue FDI's contributions to China's economy in the future.

Information Externalities Affecting the Dynamic Pattern of Foreign Direct Investment

Information Externalities Affecting the Dynamic Pattern of Foreign Direct Investment
Author: Sayuri Shirai
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1994-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451974647

The dynamic pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries shows a three-phase pattern. Despite government policies that promote it, initially the inflow of FDI is sluggish, followed by a period of considerable fluctuation before finally entering the stage of rapid growth. The paper explains the pattern through recourse to two concepts: the searching process of individual investors and the information externalities of investors in the aggregate. Policy implications that may serve to shift an economy of a developing country from small-scale FDI to one of rapidly expanding FDI are considered. As China is a clear example of this pattern, it has been selected to promote understanding of the process.

Tax Incentives for Foreign Direct Investment

Tax Incentives for Foreign Direct Investment
Author: A. J. Easson
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9041122281

Each national report addresses, among other things, the following issues: - the sources of law and general principle of the law of evidence - the means of evidence - the role of the judge and the parties in the evidence procedure - the evaluation of evidence - the production of evidence - the registration of produced evidence - the possibilities to admit new evidence or to renew evidence in appeal proceedings.

Investment Incentives and Performance Requirements

Investment Incentives and Performance Requirements
Author: Stephen E. Guisinger
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1985-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780275901103

This book covers the policies of governments and countries toward direct foreign investment in both developed and developing countries. A team of consultants to the World Bank addresses three broad questions regarding foreign investment: Do countries compete for foreign investment? Are host country incentives effective in attracting foreign investment? Do performance requirements imposed by host countries alter either investment or operational decisions of foreign investors? To answer these questions, both government officials in ten countries and representatives of more than thirty multinational companies were interviewed. In addition, seventy-four investment projects in the automobile, computer, food products, and petrochemical industries were selected for intensive review.

Foreign Direct Investment, Development and Corporate Responsibility

Foreign Direct Investment, Development and Corporate Responsibility
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1999-11-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9264174133

This conference proceedings examines whether FDI’s contribution to economic development will respond in a balanced and sustainable way to the aspirations and expectations of host and home countries alike.