ATTRACTING FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS: THE CASE OF LATGALE REGION

Attracting Foreign Direct Investment to Your Community

FDI is, however, risky for the investing firm and often controversial for the host. So while some states and regions in the U.S. have enthusiastically embraced FDI as part of their economic development strategies, other states have not. Successes around the country have led to reconsideration of the previous views of FDI, and most states are now actively seeking investment from overseas, many w...

The Ranking Of The OIC Member Countries Based On Factors Influencing Their Inward Foreign Direct Investments

The Effects of Trade Integration, Globalization and Foreign Direct Investments on Employment in Iranian Manufacturing Sector

This paper focuses on two major aspects of globalization: international trade and FDI and their impacts on manufacturing employment in Iran and study whether foreign direct investment and trade expansion with Asian and European partner played any role in shaping the Iranian manufacturing employment structure. This study incorporates globalization (KOF index), trade integration and FDI into a si...

The Impact of Economic Sanctions and other Factors on Attracting Foreign Direct Investment in OPEC Countries

Abstract Foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered as a one of the important channels of financing capital internationally. FDI, in addition to compensating for the lack of capital, entails the transfer of technology, the entry of expert human capital, management, and knowledge; therefore, in order to Realizing the continuous and stable economic growth is necessary to scientifically identi...

Foreign Direct Investments in Southeast Asia

Foreign direct investment has been of great importance in economic growth and global economic integration over the last decades. South East Asia has been part of this development with rapidly increasing inflows of FDI. However, there are large variations over time and between countries in the region as regard to the policies towards FDI, and in actual inflows of FDI. This chapter aims at examin...