Overseas Plantation and Biotechnology.

The Current Status of Japan's Overseas Industrial Forest Plantation Projects

In Japan. the percentage of recycled paper in paper manufacturing and the percentage of imported pulpwood in all pulpwood both exceeded 50% in 1989, and these figures never appear going down again. Around that time. Japanese pulp and paper companies began overseas industrial forest plantation projects, and approximately ten years have passed since then. At this moment, projects are found in eig...

Where will the wood come from? Plantation forests and the role of biotechnology.

Wood is almost as important to humanity as food, and the natural forests from which most of it is harvested from are of enormous environmental value. However, these slow-growing forests are unable to meet current demand, resulting in the loss and degradation of forest. Plantation forests have the potential to supply the bulk of humanity's wood needs on a long-term basis, and so reduce to accept...

Biotechnology and Social Aspect

Rrh : Overseas Investment and Firm

A firm can serve overseas customers by exporting or by producing in the foreign market. Thus, ceteris paribus, one might expect increases in overseas investment to displace exports. However, most empirical work has found a positive relation between the two variables. We use a panel data set containing 25 years of data on 932 Japanese manufacturing firms to investigate the effect direct investme...

Testing overseas doctors.