In this paper, the concordance between the major tenets of the export promotion policies of the public export promotion organisations in Belgium, i.e. Export Vlaanderen (the predecessor of Flanders Investment & Trade), AWEX and Brussels Export, in the period 1999- 2003 on the one hand, and the...

The expert contributors assess the state-of-the-art with regard to private regulation of food, natural resources and labor conditions. They begin with an introduction to, and discussion of, several leading existing private standards, and go on to assess private food standards and their...

We study to what extent factor demand in EU parent firms and countries is affected by FDI and affiliate production in the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). Since FDI may exert a direct as well as an indirect influence on factor demand, its effect on the investing firm level and the...