International Investment Instruments

International Investment Instruments
Author: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Division on Transnational Corporations and Investment
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2005
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9789211126648

This is the 13th volume in the series which contains a collection of international instruments relating to foreign direct investment (FDI) and transnational corporations (TNCs). It is divided into three parts which cover: additional regional instruments; investment-related provisions in a number of additional free trade, economic partnership arrangements and framework agreements not covered in previous volumes; and the text of a number of additional prototype bilateral treaties for the promotion and protection of foreign investments (BITs) not covered in previous volumes.

Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis

Multinational Enterprise and Economic Analysis
Author: Richard E. Caves
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1996-01-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521478588

This book surveys the contributions that economic analysis has made to our understanding of why multinational enterprises exist.

The International Trade Policy for Technology Transfers

The International Trade Policy for Technology Transfers
Author: Yi Shin Tang
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2009-05-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9041144579

This book provides a robust guideline to both policymakers and researchers wishing to identify and categorize the factors that influence the process of technology flows across national boundaries, as well as the economic theories and legal arguments that may support a given position in international forums. In particular, the work discusses how certain negotiation strategies may optimally deal with such barriers and lead to more effective institutional arrangements in the current global geography of technological development.

Evolutionary Economics

Evolutionary Economics
Author: Marc R. Tool
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2019-05-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315492997

This two-volume work is intended to map the theoretical heartland of the institutionalist perspective on political economy. Volume I, "Foundations of Institutional Thought", identifies the origins of institutional economics and explores the primary analytical tools in its development. The papers included in Volume II, "Institutional Theory and Policy", consider basic economic processes, institutions for stabilizing and planning economic activities, the role of power and accountability, and emerging global interdependence. Marc R. Tool is the editor of "Journal of Economic Issues".

Capacity-building In Science And Technology In The Third World

Capacity-building In Science And Technology In The Third World
Author: Shahid M. Shahidullah
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2019-02-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429714408

Traditional strategies of technical assistance, technology transfer, appropriate technology, and self-reliance for science and technology development in the Third World, cannot be successfully implemented until Third World countries improve their fundamental organization of science and technology. In order to make those improvements - a process kno