Limpopo Province of South Africa has been successful in recent years in attracting domestic and foreign investors. One of the priority sectors favored by the provincial development strategy is agriculture, and the proposed animal feed plant is a commercial project falling under the umbrella of...

The purpose of this paper is to carry out a series of empirical estimates of the relative impact of a series of changes in the Canadian taxation of income generated by foreign-owned investments on: 1) The change in Canadian tax revenues 2) The tax transfer to or from the U.S. Treasury, and 3)...

The Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) of the Kyrgyz Republic indicates clearly the desire and the need to attract additional direct foreign investment to the country. The need for foreign investment is for at least two reasons. First, it is needed to improve the efficiency and...

A Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) is at the heart of any BOT or BOO type power generation project that is to be undertaken by an Independent Power Producer (IPP). During the past decade privately owned IPPs selling electricity to the power industry has become common place. Such arrangements...

The main body of theory concerned with the gains and losses incurred because of international investment has been carried out in the context of a two factor-two country-good model in which labour is immobile internationally while some of the capital goods of the home country are invested abroad....

The development of the international petroleum industry has been influenced by the taxation policies of the United States, the home country of most of the major integrated international petroleum producers. These corporations are multinational in the most general definition of the word,...

The conventional treatment by the economic appraisal of investments has been to disregard the particular terms of foreign financing as a benefit or cost. This approach is being called into question as the private provision of public services has become dominated by foreign investors and...

This paper provides a new explanation for "tax holidays," as well as their subsequent removal in a tax reform stage. In a two-period model, I assume that perfectly competitive foreign investors are uncertain about the host country government's propensity for public spending, and that infinitely...