ILO pub. Working paper on the effects of multinational enterprise on employment in Brazil - provides historical background to foreign investment in Brazil, and studies the role of multinational enterprise in industrial structure and industrialization, productivity, capital intensiveness, wages,...

Export processing zones (EPZs) or free zones as they are called in Malaysia have played an important role in promoting manufactured exports. The Malaysian Government enacted the Investment Incentive Act in 1968 to promote the growth and development of labour-intensive export-oriented...

There is an increased interest in how investors are adopting codes and responding to standards in their international investment decisions. There are several standards relating to investment, including protection of investors and labour and environmental standards. Some are voluntary standards,...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on structural change and industrial policy trends from 1970-1980 in Japan - discusses adjustment to petroleum price increases and inflation, competition, changing occupational structure and trade structure, role of workers, trade unions and entrepreneurs (incl....

Covers trends from 1987 to 1998. Includes comparisons with MERCOSUR countries.

ILO pub. Working paper on employment effects of multinational enterprise in Belgium - notes the importance of government policy in relation to direct foreign investment, examines employment creation, labour mobility and unemployment trends according to nationality, industrial sector, size of...

ILO pub. Working paper on the employment effects of multinational enterprises in export processing zones in the Caribbean, esp. Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica - covers exports of industrial products, foreign investment, ownership of export oriented industry, employment creation,...

ILO pub. Working paper on employment effects of multinational enterprise in Germany, Federal Republic - examines the role of foreign investment in changing industrial structure, employment creation, labour mobility to plants abroad, etc. As well as the role of developing countries imports, and...

Argues that the global organization of production accounts for much of the expansion in trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) and that the functional integration of production activites in different locations has led to an intensification of global economic integration.