FRAGMENTED AND UNCLEAR LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN INDONESIAN TOURISM

Tourism industries and tourism foreign direct investment in Wales

Introduction Wales has some of the best landscapes in Europe, including three national parks which host activities that include hill walking, canoeing, mountain biking, kayaking and climbing. Wales is also becoming more and more popular for 'extreme' sports, including surfing, hang gliding and downhill cycling. In addition, cultural, historical and industrial heritage sites in Wales attract sig...

Environmental Regulations and Foreign Direct Investment Provincial Evidence from China

The Country Risks and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

T he importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries has begun to spread very rapidly, especially after the transition of command economies countries into open markets. Many countries see attracting FDI as an important element in their strategy for economic growth because FDI is widely regarded as an amalgamation of capital, technology, marketing, and management...

Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers and Productivity Growth in Indonesian Garment and Electronics Manufacturing

Inflows of foreign direct investment generate externalities that spill over to domestic firms and raise their productivity. This article examines the extent of spillover effects of foreign direct investment for firms in the highly disaggregated garment (ISIC 3221) and electronics industries (ISIC 3832) in Indonesia. Both are export-intensive industries, but differ greatly in technological sophi...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...