The prospects and problems of direct foreign investment as a very important factor in the development Ukrainian economy are determined this paper. Foreign (FDI) is most desirable form investment, because it enables to implement large projects; addition country receives new technologies, corporate governance practices, etc. Over past years, according policy Ministry Economic Development Trade Uk...

a r t i c l e i n f o How does outward foreign direct investment (FDI) affect employment growth of the multinational corporations (MNCs) in the home country? Does the impact of outward investment differ by the level of development of the destination country of the FDI? Using a difference-indifference approach, we assess the impact of starting to invest in less-advanced countries compared with i...

mining and metallurgical projects are among those that require the most sizeable invest-ments undertaken in iran. one target of the current development plan and the ministry of mines and industries has been to attract foreign investment in mining projects. a survey of world-class mining companies was conducted to determine their expectations and in order to recommend a frame work for iran aimed...

Relying on a recently developed decomposition framework, this paper explores spatial distribution of innovation capability in China. It is found that at the regional level, China’s inequality in innovation capability increased from 1995 to 2004. At the provincial level, the inequality decreased from1995 to 2000, but increased from 2000 to 2004. Location, industrialization and urbanization, huma...

Studies on foreign direct investment locations in China have been conducted mainly at interregional and interprovincial scales, and little attention has been paid to the intraurban scale where location decisions of foreign firms can differ from domestic firms. This article explores the intraurban locations of information and communication technology (ICT) firms in Suzhou, a city experiencing ra...

Market-seeking strategies predominate in the recent FDI boom in MERCOSUR countries. In the trade performance of transnational corporation affiliates a sort of ‘asymmetric integration’ is clearly visible: they produce for the internal market and, to some extent, for the regional one, while import inputs and final goods from developed countries (and a significant part of these trade flows is intr...

Lesotho, a small, mountainous and resource poor country inside South Africa, has emerged as the largest and fastest growing exporter of apparel from Sub-Saharan Africa to the US. Its rapid manufacturing growth has been driven by inflows of export-oriented foreign direct investment. This paper explores this unusual experience against the setting of the dismal record of industrial growth and comp...

this paper evaluates the real exchange rate fluctuations and uncertainties resulting from it, in the iranian economy. for this purpose, at first indirect effect of real exchange rate uncertainties on economic growth through foreign investment, private investment and exports are expressed, then the real exchange rate uncertainties and its relationship with economic growth and final pattern of in...