How are factors such as corruption perception and the level of democracy influencing foreign direct investment to developing economies?

This article is the first to show that foreign investors care about economic freedoms, rather than political freedoms, in making decisions about where to locate capital. Hence more democratic countries may receive less Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows if economic freedoms are not...

How are factors such as corruption perception and the level of democracy influencing foreign direct investment to developing economies?

Scientific studies have repeatedly shown the need to prevent the increase in global emissions so that the planet's average temperature does not exceed 2 °C over pre-industrial levels. While the divisions between Annex 1 and non-Annex nations continue to prevent the realization of a...

A 0.152 m internal diameter fluidized-bed pilot-plant facility designed to operate up to a maximum temperature of 1500 K at ambient pressures has been fabricated, installed and tested. High temperatures are obtained by the combustion of propane-air mixtures in the bed. A specially designed...

Storing sun’s energy in the form of latent thermal energy of a phase change material (PCM) offers high volumetric energy storage density resulting in low capital cost. The objective of this paper is to analyze the dynamic behavior of a packed bed thermal energy storage system with encapsulated...

Heat transfer between immersed surfaces and fluidized beds of large particles is investigated. Large particles here refer to those belonging to groups IIB and III of the powder classification scheme of Saxena and Ganzha, and characterized by Ar 130,000. Four correlations for large particles...