Incentives and Impediments to U.S. Foreign Direct Investment in the Caribbean
Author : Susan M. Kramer
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Investments, American
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Author : Susan M. Kramer
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Investments, American
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Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,3 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9789211555547
For the first time since 1999, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into Latin America and the Caribbean grew in 2004. These inflows topped US$ 54 billion, far exceeding the US$ 37 billion registered in 2003 and representing a 46% increase. This is welcome news for the region, as it may portend the beginning of a new and sustained investment boom. However, it does not mean that the Latin American and Caribbean countries have solved their problems with regard to the limited benefits they receive from the presence of transnational corporations (TNCs) within their borders. In general, existing FDI inflows are not of the quality that is required. If the region's countries are to increase the benefits they reap from the presence of TNCs, the national policies and institutions they have put in place to deal with international commitments regarding investment, establish incentives to attract FDI and evaluate the results of FDI policies will need to be improved. This year's report focuses on market-seeking investment strategies of TNCs in the region. The second chapter deals with the experience of Brazil, which is a major FDI recipient that mainly attracts this kind of FDI and has begun to demonstrate an interest in attracting other kinds, especially the efficiency-seeking variety that generates exports. The third chapter looks at the experience of the electricity sector in the Southern Cone. This sector was characterized by market-seeking investment during the boom of the 1990s, but that investment failed to redress existing capacity shortages and the industry went into crisis. This chapter suggests that a subregional approach to this sector's development might help to attract FDI from new stakeholders, such as petroleum companies, through the integration of gas and electricity activities.
Author : UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE. CARIBBEAN
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Page : 170 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2021-11
Category :
ISBN : 9789211220735
This document examines the global and regional evolution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and offers recommendations so these flows can contribute to the region's productive development processes.
Author : United Nations
Publisher : UN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789211217599
In 2010, the Latin American and Caribbean region showed great resilience to the international financial crisis and became the world region with the fastest-growing flows of both inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The upswing in FDI in the region has occurred in a context in which developing countries in general have taken on a greater share in both inward and outward FDI flows. This briefing paper is divided into five sections. The first offers a regional overview of FDI in 2010. The second examines FDI trends in Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic. The third describes the presence China is beginning to build up as an investor in the region. Lastly, the fourth and fifth sections analyze the main foreign investments and business strategies in the telecommunications and software sectors, respectively.
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Page : 644 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Caribbean Area
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Author : Lou Anne A. Barclay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134600216
The Caribbean countries of Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad-Tobago represent excellent examples of the increasingly important role played by Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in less developed, micro-economies. The increased dependence of these countries on FDI, however, calls into question the attractiveness of the business environment of the region to the foreign investor. This volume examines both the investment behaviour and corporate strategies operating in these three countries, and assesses the factors which influence the motivations, location choices and market entry mode of multinationals making investments in the Caribbean.
Author : United Nations
Publisher : UN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 2010-01-26
Category : Economics
ISBN : 9789211217025
The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series, which is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian, began in 1861 and now comprises more than 350 individual volumes. The volumes published over the last two decades increasingly contain declassified records from all the foreign affairs agencies.
Author : Dennis Gallagher
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Refugees
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Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821396153
Tenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 185 economies, Doing Business 2013 measures regulations affecting 11 areas of everyday business activity: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, closing a business, and employing workers. The report updates all indicators as of June 1, 2012, ranks economies on their overall “ease of doing business”, and analyzes reforms to business regulation – identifying which economies are strengthening their business environment the most. The Doing Business reports illustrate how reforms in business regulations are being used to analyze economic outcomes for domestic entrepreneurs and for the wider economy. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the global Doing Business report. Doing Business is a flagship product by the World Bank and IFC that garners worldwide attention on regulatory barriers to entrepreneurship. More than 60 economies use the Doing Business indicators to shape reform agendas and monitor improvements on the ground. In addition, the Doing Business data has generated over 870 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals since its inception.
Author : United States. Commission for the Study of International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Caribbean Area
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