Both exploitation of Natural resources and activities of multinational corporations in developing countries have independently been subjects of vehement discussions surrounding the oil or in a wider sense raw material crisis emerging from the embargo of OPEC countries in 1973 and those on the...

The movements of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the recent past are marked by a relatively very high growth in the Pacific Rim (PR) countries (Australia, Brunei, China, Hongkong, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand). The...

According to investors' motivations, outward foreign direct investment (FDI) can be distinguished between natural resources seeking, market seeking or efficiency seeking. In the first two types, unemployment resulting from export substitution and reimports is expected to be considerably less...