Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment

Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This conference proceedings analyses the key issues in the FDI and environment relationship.

Foreign Direct Investment and Environment in Central and Eastern Europe

Foreign Direct Investment and Environment in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Jonathan Klavens
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 58
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821331804

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 306. Describes ways in which the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which has attracted worldwide attention by providing small loans to the rural poor and recording high repayment rates, can achieve sustainability, expansion, and replicability. The Grameen Bank has more than 2 million members, of which 94 percent are women, spread across 35,000 villages

Foreign Direct Investment, Governance, and the Environment in China

Foreign Direct Investment, Governance, and the Environment in China
Author: J. Zhang
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137318651

This book links the environment and corruption with China's large inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). It investigates the effects of economic development and foreign investment on pollution in China; the effects of corruption and governance quality on FDI location choice in China.

Foreign Direct Investment

Foreign Direct Investment
Author: Bijit Bora
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2002-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134557248

Foreign Direct Investment examines the different approaches to explaining the growth and distribution of FDI in the world. Pulling together contributions from an array of international experts, this study combines theoretical with empirical work on issues such as computable general equilibrium modelling, trade, intellectual property, environment, labour, services and development. By analysing different aspects of the growth and impact of FDI this book is able to balance areas where research is well advanced with areas, such as the role of FDI in development, where many questions remain. This insightful and important text will be useful to students of development economics as well as policy makers and researchers.

Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection

Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection
Author: Pierre-Marie Dupuy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107328640

Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection investigates the main challenges facing the implementation of environmental protection and the synergies between foreign investment and environmental protection. Adopting legal, economic and political perspectives, the contributing authors analyse the various incentives which encourage foreign investment into pro-environment projects (such as funds, project-finance, market mechanisms, payments-for-ecosystem services and insurance) and the safeguards against its potentially harmful effects (investment regulation, CSR and accountability mechanisms, contracts and codes of conduct).

The Effect of Treaties on Foreign Direct Investment

The Effect of Treaties on Foreign Direct Investment
Author: Karl P Sauvant
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 795
Release: 2009-03-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199745188

Over the past twenty years, foreign direct investments have spurred widespread liberalization of the foreign direct investment (FDI) regulatory framework. By opening up to foreign investors and encouraging FDI, which could result in increased capital and market access, many countries have improved the operational conditions for foreign affiliates and strengthened standards of treatment and protection. By assuring investors that their investment will be legally protected with closed bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and double taxation treaties (DTTs), this in turn creates greater interest in FDI.