Albania has opportunities to attract foreign direct investments in several sectors of economies: agriculture, manufacture economy, tourism etc. Albania has a great potential, but the domestic capital is very low and it is not enable to utilize these opportunities. The aim of our paper is to...

This paper deals with the issue of investments in the Russian real sector of the economy. Slowdown in the economic activity has resulted in a new situation in the investment sector. Through 2008 a gradual downward trend in the investment growth was observed which coupled with the global...

This article looks back at the relationship between Australia and China, particularly following the normalisation of relations in 1972.

Two acquisition bids by foreign state-owned enterprises (SOEs) for Canadian resource companies have raised an array of concerns about their potential impact, ranging from worries about national security and governance standards to reciprocal access to markets. While Ottawa’s current screening...

This paper examines the role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in promoting economic growth via export promotion by using quarterly data relating to the period 1991-I to 2000-IV. The study uses the Johansen co-Integration test, and the results demonstrate that there is a long-run relationship...

FDI issue was and is heavily debated, therefore, in this area there are concerns both at nationally and internationally level. With the hypothesis that large flows of foreign direct investment determines a number of benefits for the economy of recipient country, in recent years, global FDI flows...

Discusses the pattern of direct foreign investment by MNEs and its role in industrial development of export oriented industry (manufacturing) and in employment creation; examines the geographic distribution of EPZs, etc.

It is widely argued that foreign investment is a mechanism for improving corporate governance in emerging markets. The results of this paper, which uses firm-level data on 365 Thai firms, challenge this conventional wisdom. A firm-specific index of the quality of corporate governance is...

Depending on one's point of view, multinational enterprises are either the heroes or the villains of the globalized economy. Governments compete fiercely for foreign direct investment by such companies, but complain when firms go global and move their activities elsewhere. Multinationals are...

This paper presents results from a comparative study of the marketing strategies used by different territories located in the far periphery. As a sample, we have selected 15 small and medium size cities and city-regions in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Elements of operational...