The developing countries are caught in the cleft stick of assertion of national interests and independence, on one side, and need for an improved investment climate to attract foreign direct investment, on the other. The question facing the foreign firms is how they can safeguard their capital...

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has been officially in business since January 19, 1971. Its major purpose is to reorganise and widen the scope of programmes for the promotion of US private investment overseas in developing countries.

Stagnating development aid and continued reluctance on the part of western commercial banks to grant new loans to problem debtor countries have led many developing countries to pay greater attention to the mobilisation of their own resources. This article outlines a strategy for increasing the...

Foreign investors in Malaysia were greatly disquieted when the Petroleum Development (Amendment) Act, 1975, and the Industrial Coordination Act were passed by the Malaysian Parllament. Both these enactments and the re-formulated Standard Conditions for Foreign Investments are Indicative of the...

Japan's direct investments have become an important factor in the economic reality of South East Asia. The following article gives a structural description of the present state of Japanese direct investment in this region.