Download or read book The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-01-08 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serving as a companion to Growing Up Global, this book from the National Research Council explores how the transition to adulthood is changing in developing countries in light of globalization and what the implications of these changes might be for those responsible for designing youth policies and programs. Presenting a detailed series of studies, this volume both complements its precursor and makes for a useful contribution in its own right. It should be of significant interest to scholars, leaders of civil society, and those charged with designing youth policies and programs.
Download or read book New Voices in Investment written by Maria Laura Gómez Mera and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the characteristics, motivations, strategies, and needs of FDI from emerging markets. It draws from a survey of investors and potential investors in Brazil, India, South Korea, and South Africa.
Download or read book THE INVESTORS GUIDE written by KOSMAS NJANIKE and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build your knowledge on international investments as you enjoy reading this book. This book is pregnant with secrets and tips for investors and entrepreneurs, as it clears some mysteries often associated with investments in developing countries. The book is useful to those looking for investment opportunities or has interests in Africa, Asia, South America and other developing countries on the globe. It seeks to 'open eyes' of the reader on the investment and business opportunities in different countries on the timing, market entrance strategies, risk management strategies and other factors for considerations. After reading this book your fear to invest in some countries and markets will be dealt with as the author explains the opportunities, threats, risk mitigation strategies and steps to be followed for one to make a successful business venture. Many examples and case studies have been utilized to help explain concepts and experiences in foreign direct investments (FDIs) on some parts of the world. The book sought to reveal opportunities in different developing countries and encourage those interested in creating wealth, business opportunities and jobs not to buy time but invest. The Investors' Guide is a book that can be of interest to university students or ambitious young people with an entrepreneurial mind in developed countries who may have access to capital and a desire to create wealth for themselves mainly through technology transfer. Investors or multi-national firms who need to expand their businesses to any developing countries will also benefit from this book. The book reveals the huge returns that can be obtained on investments in different sectors in developing countries and this is a chance that one would not want to miss.
Download or read book The Investors Guide written by Kosmas Njanike and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build your knowledge on international investments as you enjoy reading this book. This book is pregnant with secrets and tips for investors and entrepreneurs, as it clears some mysteries often associated with investments in developing countries. The book is useful to those looking for investment opportunities or has interests in Africa, Asia, South America and other developing countries on the globe. It seeks to `open eyes' of the reader on the investment and business opportunities in different countries on the timing, market entrance strategies, risk management strategies and other factors for considerations. After reading this book your fear to invest in some countries and markets will be dealt with as the author explains the opportunities, threats, risk mitigation strategies and steps to be followed for one to make a successful business venture. Many examples and case studies have been utilized to help explain concepts and experiences in foreign direct investments (FDIs) on some parts of the world. The book sought to reveal opportunities in different developing countries and encourage those interested in creating wealth, business opportunities and jobs not to buy time but invest. The Investors' Guide is a book that can be of interest to university students or ambitious young people with an entrepreneurial mind in developed countries who may have access to capital and a desire to create wealth for themselves mainly through technology transfer. Investors or multi-national firms who need to expand their businesses to any developing countries will also benefit from this book. The book reveals the huge returns that can be obtained on investments in different sectors in developing countries and this is a chance that one would not want to miss.
Download or read book Making It Big written by Andrea Ciani and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic and social progress requires a diverse ecosystem of firms that play complementary roles. Making It Big: Why Developing Countries Need More Large Firms constitutes one of the most up-to-date assessments of how large firms are created in low- and middle-income countries and their role in development. It argues that large firms advance a range of development objectives in ways that other firms do not: large firms are more likely to innovate, export, and offer training and are more likely to adopt international standards of quality, among other contributions. Their particularities are closely associated with productivity advantages and translate into improved outcomes not only for their owners but also for their workers and for smaller enterprises in their value chains. The challenge for economic development, however, is that production does not reach economic scale in low- and middle-income countries. Why are large firms scarcer in developing countries? Drawing on a rare set of data from public and private sources, as well as proprietary data from the International Finance Corporation and case studies, this book shows that large firms are often born large—or with the attributes of largeness. In other words, what is distinct about them is often in place from day one of their operations. To fill the “missing top†? of the firm-size distribution with additional large firms, governments should support the creation of such firms by opening markets to greater competition. In low-income countries, this objective can be achieved through simple policy reorientation, such as breaking oligopolies, removing unnecessary restrictions to international trade and investment, and establishing strong rules to prevent the abuse of market power. Governments should also strive to ensure that private actors have the skills, technology, intelligence, infrastructure, and finance they need to create large ventures. Additionally, they should actively work to spread the benefits from production at scale across the largest possible number of market participants. This book seeks to bring frontier thinking and evidence on the role and origins of large firms to a wide range of readers, including academics, development practitioners and policy makers.
Download or read book Investing in Developing Countries written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; [Washington, D.C. : sold by OECD Publications Center]. This book was released on 1975 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Investment in Developing Countries written by H. Kehal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines foreign investment in developing countries both from a theoretical perspective and country specific perspective. It covers strategies to maximize the benefits that draw from the inward investment flow as well as examining foreign investment as a vehicle for international economic integration. The book focuses on foreign investment in the third and fourth largest economies of the world - the Peoples Republic of China and India - in addition to Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries.
Download or read book Foreign Investment Transnationals and Developing Countries written by Sanjaya Lall and published by Springer. This book was released on 1977-06-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Saving Investment and Growth in Developing Countries written by Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of Equity Barriers on Foreign Investment in Developing Countries written by Stijn Claessens and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal and other barriers limit foreign investors' access to emerging stock markets. Empirical evidence suggests that countries could lower the (risk- adjusted) cost of capital by removing formal barriers to such access.
Download or read book Macroeconomics and Health written by Jeffrey Sachs and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a strategy for investing in health for economic development, especially in the world's poorest countries. The report proposes a partnership of developing and developed countries, to save eight million lives yearly, in developing countries from infectious diseases and maternal conditions.
Download or read book Global Investment Competitiveness Report 2017 2018 written by World Bank Group and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Investment Competitiveness report presents new insights and evidence on drivers of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries, and FDI’s role in development. The report’s survey of 750 executives of multinational corporations finds that a business-friendly legal and regulatory environment is a key driver of investment decisions in developing countries, along with political stability, security, and macroeconomic conditions. The report’s topic-specific chapters explore the potential of FDI to create new growth opportunities for local firms, assess the power of tax holidays and other fiscal incentives to attract FDI, analyze characteristics of FDI originating in developing countries, and examine the experience of foreign investors in countries affected by conflict and fragility. Three key features of this Global Investment Competitiveness report distinguish it from other publications on FDI. First, its insights are based on a combination of first-hand perspectives of investors, extensive analysis of available data and evidence, and international good practices in investment policy design and implementation. Secondly, rather than exploring broad FDI trends, the report provides detailed and unique analysis of FDI depending on its motivation, sector, geographic origin and destination, and phase of investment. Thirdly, the report offers practical and actionable recommendations to policymakers in developing countries wishing to reform their business climates for increased investment competitiveness. As such, the report is meant to complement other knowledge products of the World Bank Group focused even more explicitly on country-level data, detailed reform diagnostics, and presentation of best practices. We are confident this report will bring value and fresh perspectives to a variety of audiences. To governments and policymakers, including investment promotion professionals, the report offers direct insights into the role of government policies and actions in investors’ decision-making. To foreign investors and site location consultants, the report provides information on FDI trends and drivers across sectors and geographies. For academic audiences, the new datasets on investment incentives and FDI motivations enables opportunities for additional research and analysis. Lastly, for development assistance providers and other stakeholders, the report highlights key approaches for maximizing FDI’s benefits for development.
Download or read book Investing in the Homeland written by Benjamin A.T. Graham and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once viewed as a “brain drain,” migrants are increasingly viewed as a resource for promoting economic development back in their home countries. In Investing in the Homeland, Benjamin Graham finds that diasporans—migrants and their descendants—play a critical role in linking foreign firms to social networks in developing countries, allowing firms to flourish even in challenging political environments most foreign investors shun. Graham’s analysis draws on new data from face-to-face interviews with the managers of over 450 foreign firms operating in two developing countries: Georgia and the Philippines. Diaspora-owned and diaspora-managed firms are better connected than other foreign firms and they use social ties to resolve disputes and influence government policy. At the same time, Graham shows that diaspora-affiliated firms are no more socially responsible than their purely foreign peers—at root, they are profit-seeking enterprises, not development NGOs. Graham identifies implications for policymakers seeking to capture the development potential of diaspora investment and for managers of multinational firms who want to harness diasporans as a source of sustained competitive advantage.
Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries Policy Considerations for sustainable Growth written by Yasmin Shoaib and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,3, Berlin School of Economics, course: Development Economics, language: English, abstract: Developing countries today have to deal with the question of how to increase economic growth. This phenomenon depends on a variety of factors: political, economic and social ones. Due to globalisation, foreign direct investment (FDI) has become an often discussed issue in literature and is seen as a key factor for economic growth by many developing countries by now. But the effects of FDI are not necessarily positive. In this written assignment, the author would like to introduce policies to be conducted in order to maximise the positive effects and to minimise the negative ones. This paper will start with a definition of the terms developing country and foreign direct investment. In the second part, a short introduction in the controversial theories about the impact on economies of developing countries will be presented. In the following, several national and international policy considerations will be introduced. The paper will end with a conclusion.
Download or read book The Legal Problems of Foreign Investment in Developing Countries written by E. I. Nwogugu and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Direct Investment and Development written by Theodore H. Moran and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2011 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this cutting-edge analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI), Moran--one of the acknowledged experts in this area--questions traditional econometric measures of foreign direct investment flows, identifies flaws in past research, elaborates on how the latest research has moved More ... into new territory, and provides a first look at what new research has uncovered. Moran concentrates on FDI in the manufacturing and assembly sector, and discusses if FDI in manufacturing raises the productivity of host country economic activities, if FDI makes the host more competitive in new sectors, and generates externalities that benefit local firms and workers. He provides important new data on the kinds of activities, types of jobs, and level of wages associated with multinational manufacturing investment. This volume dissects the market failures associated with the contemporary idea of development as selfdiscovery, and addresses the tricky question of whether to provide incentives for FDI. In addition, he provides a novel reassessment of the debate about FDI crowding-out or crowding-in domestic investment. This book provides insight and lessons for developing and developed countries, NGOs, the corporate responsibility community, and multilateral lending institutions
Download or read book Multinational Investment in Developing Countries written by Thomas Andersson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the struggle for gains from direct investment between multinationals and developing countries. It discusses which policies work best in influencing the behaviour of MNEs and how developing countries compete with one another for multinational investment. It argues that the tax regimes of different countries rarly deter investors but that nationalisation acts as a powerful disincentive. It also concludes that governments should not be expected to sacrifice the environment to attract multinationals.
