"This book analyses the most recent trends in Foreign Direct Investment from the major Asian economies to the EU, focusing on China and Japan's FDIs in the EU, and Poland in particular. The authors assert that, from a European perspective, there is a strong need for further Asian FDIs into EU...

1 Research literature analysis on FDI and FDI flow between Asia and the EU member states SMITA SHUKLA 2 The global financial crisis and FDI in Europe HELGA KRISTJÁNSDÓTTIR AND STEFANÍA ÓSKARSDÓTTIR 3 The effect of capital flows on Asian/Euro exchange market pressure SCOTT W. HEGERTY 4 FDI...

"Researchers in international development have long argued that the high costs of doing business harms prosperity in developing countries, a claim that invites the question of why governments impose these costs and why societies fail to enact reforms reducing them. This book seeks to answer the...

1. Introduction -- 2. Costs and benefits of capital account liberalization for developing countries : theoretical and empirical evaluation -- 3. Financial liberalization and economic policy in Brazil in 1990-2009 -- 4. Recent changes in capital controls and foreign exchange rules in Brazil -- 5....

chapter Introduction: case studies in Brazil’s economy -- chapter 1 The Brazilian banking industry: evolution, concentration, and competition after the 1990s ANDREDEMELOMODENESI, TARCISOGOUVEIADASILVA, -- chapter 2 Private higher education expansion in Brazil: a case study...