Foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade are driving forces in agro-food global value chains (GVCs), allowing … companies to spread their activities across countries in complex production chains. This study explores the landscape of FDI in …-2017. The study finds that FDI plays an important role in driving participation in agro-food GVCs, underscoring the close …

with only occasional relapses. Yet, FDI liberalisation remains an unfinished agenda in various parts of the world and … FDI positions and cross-border M&A activity to FDI restrictions as measured by the OECD FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness … Index. Results suggest that reforms liberalising FDI restrictions by about 10% as measured by the Index could increase …

Globalisation through international trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and international movements of labour is a … penetration, stock of inward FDI relative to GDP and foreign workers as a share of employment, reflecting the legacy of policies … comprehensive approach, including; i) reducing barriers to FDI and imports, particularly in agriculture, through multilateral trade …

How has globalization affected the relative taxation of labor and capital, and why To address this question, this paper … builds and analyzes a new database of effective macroeconomic tax rates covering 150 countries since 1965, constructed by … combining national accounts data with government revenue statistics. Four main findings are obtained. (1) The effective tax …