This paper introduces the concept of shopping ethically. It includes a bit about the philosophy behind what we do and some background to the main issues that made it so important. It also gives us some guidance on getting started as an ethical consumer and explains the different ways that we can...

The financial crisis that began in the United States in 2008 quickly spread across Europe and eventually affected all global economic activity and financial systems.The Arab World was also hit by the global financial crisis, but the impact varied among its countries by the nature and structure...

Now humanity is going through hard times, hard times caused by this pandemic, which has strayed over the world namely, the current global crisis. It began as a US subprime crisis in the United State, it was then transformed into a banking crisis, followed by the debt crisis, sovereign credit...

The paper highlights the main categories of risks that transnational companies can face when implementing foreign investment. These risks affect the company’s performance and therefore they must be properly managed. Risk factors, risk categories and risk control measures are analyzed here. We...

Considering the significant positive impact of foreign direct investments on the developing economies, we have tried in this paper to identify the main factors influencing one way or another the flows and stocks of FDI. Our sample includes four host countries with a similar past from Eastern...

The fiscal competition and the differential of the imposition quotations can be viewed from various perspectives: for certain countries (especially for those that are disadvantaged from the point of view of the resources, of the geographical location) a favorable taxation system can be viewed as...

FDI had a positive development before the global crisis, on the background of global economic growth, foreign investment regime, liberalization and internationalization strategies by increasing the number of transnational corporations. The crisis has adversely affected access to financing,...

The purpose of the paper is to analyze foreign direct investment flows and international competitiveness in European Union countries. The result of the analyze shows that is a direct correlation between foreign direct investment flows (FDI flows quantify by UNCTAD) and international...

Financial institutions, like any other company for that matter, have as a main objective the diversification and expansion of revenue and profit sources. To this purpose they have expanded ever more their activity across national borders. But, as it is well known, especially if we relate to the...