Foreign Direct Investment In Infrastructure

Author : Frank Sader
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821346024

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Attracting Foreign Direct Investment Into Infrastructure by Frank Sader Pdf

Printed on Demand. Limited stock is held for this title. If you would like to order 30 copies or more please contact [email protected] Contact [email protected], if currently unavailable. FIAS Occasional Papers no. 12. During the early 1990s, the Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS), a joint facility of the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), found that governments and foreign investors alike were concerned and frustrated about difficulties in successfully implementing private infrastructure projects. Governments were trying to attract these new types of investment without having established an appropriate policy framework. Therefore, there were no institutional structures to resolve impediments effectively and provide clear guidelines for the award of such large-scale projects. Legal frameworks tended to address traditional public-sector responsibilities and not investor concerns. Regulatory environments either did not exist or did not provide investors enough guarantees that their future operating environment would be sufficiently reliable. Consequently, FIAS has been advising many governments in the developing world on the best way to establish a policy framework attractive to foreign investors. FIAS typically combines its review of the institutional, legal and regulatory environment with investor roundtables and workshops for senior government officials to ensure that all the major concerns of both the government and the private sector are taken into account. Although each country has unique policy problems, FIAS has encountered common features in key areas that pose stumbling blocks for private infrastructure investments. This study synthesizes this experience and derives lessons for facilitating and encouraging foreign direct investment in infrastructure.

Author : David Donaldson,Frank Sader,Dileep M. Wagle
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821338854

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Foreign Direct Investment in Infrastructure by David Donaldson,Frank Sader,Dileep M. Wagle Pdf

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 351. Outlines Tunisia's innovative strategy of reducing the budgetary costs of food subsidies in a manner that is politically acceptable and that protects the nutritional status of the poor. The government uses self-targeted programs, whereby subsidies are shifted to items consumed primarily by low-income groups, while prices of unsubsidized, higher-quality items are liberalized, appealing to higher-income groups who then consume less of the subsidized foods.

Author : Laurence Carter,Frank Sader,Pernille Holtedahl
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821338188

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Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern European Infrastructure by Laurence Carter,Frank Sader,Pernille Holtedahl Pdf

World Bank Technical Paper No. 332. Uses firm-level data to measure how the largest industrial firms in five Central and Eastern European countries restructured during 1992-94 and makes projections through 2000. Various measures of restructuring are used, including changes in export performance, factor productivity, profitability, and rate of return on capital. The study reveals which reform strategies have been the most effective in firm restructuring. Also available in Russian: Stock No. 13729 (ISBN 0-8213-3729-7).

Author : Das, Ramesh Chandra
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781522523628

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Handbook of Research on Economic, Financial, and Industrial Impacts on Infrastructure Development by Das, Ramesh Chandra Pdf

The infrastructure of a country has significant effects on both the lives of its citizens and its place in international markets. As such, it is imperative to develop policies to promote the quality of a nation’s infrastructure. The Handbook of Research on Economic, Financial, and Industrial Impacts on Infrastructure Development is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on various initiatives and policies developed to enhance the current infrastructure of modern nations. Including the role of economics, finance, and multiple industry perspectives, this book covers a range of pertinent topics such as R&D initiatives, foreign direct investment, and trade liberalization, and this publication is an ideal reference source for researchers, academics, practitioners, and students interested in recent trends in infrastructure development.

Author : Steven Globerman,Daniel M. Shapiro,Canada. Industry Canada,Industry Canada Research Publications Program
Publisher : Industry Canada
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 0662319966

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National Political Infrastructure and Foreign Direct Investment [electronic Resource] by Steven Globerman,Daniel M. Shapiro,Canada. Industry Canada,Industry Canada Research Publications Program Pdf

Author : James K. Jackson
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781437931501

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Foreign Investment and National Security: Economic Considerations by James K. Jackson Pdf

This report assesses recent international developments as the leaders from a number of nations work to reach a consensus on an informal set of best practices regarding national restrictions on foreign investment for national security purposes. This report also provides one possible approach for assessing the costs and benefits involved in using national policies to direct or to restrict foreign direct investment for national security reasons.

Author : Ms.Wanda Tseng,Mr.Harm Zebregs
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451974171

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Foreign Direct Investment in China by Ms.Wanda Tseng,Mr.Harm Zebregs Pdf

China's increasing openness to foreign direct investment (FDI) has contributed importantly to its exceptional growth performance. This paper examines China's experience with FDI and identifies some lessons for other countries. Most of the factors explaining China's success have also been important in attracting FDI to other countries: market size, labor costs, quality of infrastructure, and government policies. FDI has contributed to higher investment and productivity growth, and has created jobs and a dynamic export sector. China's success, however, did not come without some pitfalls: an increasingly complex tax incentive system and growing regional income disparities. Accession to the WTO should broaden China's "opening up" policies and continue FDI's contributions to China's economy in the future.

Author : Esther Nyabiage Nyaosi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 996677789X

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The Effect of Infrastructure on Foreign Direct Investment in Kenya by Esther Nyabiage Nyaosi Pdf

Author : Dale R. Weigel
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821340506

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Foreign Direct Investment by Dale R. Weigel Pdf

The report reviews lessons from the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) investment, and advisory experience in the developing world, which show the interactions between policy frameworks, and the volume and structure of foreign direct investments (FDI). Case studies show how the Corporation promotes successful project structures, and regulatory changes, as it tries to attain the strongest development impact for investments. In developing countries, FDI has flowed mainly into manufacturing, and processing industries. In the past, investment attractiveness had been closely linked to possession of natural resources, or a large domestic market, while production and trade globalization, competitiveness as a location for investment, and exporting, have become the main determinants of attractiveness. Sources of FDI in the past, came almost exclusively from industrial countries, though recently those sources have widened, emerging from developing countries in their own right, and for their own regions. IFC, as an international initiative to promote FDI in developing countries, is liable to promote bilateral trade agreements, bilateral and multilateral financial institutions, and investment promotion programs; its advisory role may vary from diagnostic studies overviewing constraints to FDI, to investment policy studies giving specific solutions on either changes, or strategies. The study further looks at how policy environment is set, and at finding investor opportunities, through project financing, largely structured as joint ventures. The inherent, fragile nature of joint ventures, restricts foreign ownership, thus limiting project structures; however, careful project design has lead to successful operations, by ensuring management, and financial arrangements. Still, to maximize benefits, an unfinished agenda of policy reform remains, and, as more countries open to FDI, this integration will lead to an overall increase in FDI flows.

Author : Michel Bellier
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821354396

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Private Participation in Infrastructure in China by Michel Bellier Pdf

Since the late 1970s China has made extensive policy reforms and infrastructure investments. Although there have been significant investments made over the past decades, most of these investments came from the public sector. The goal of this report is to help improve China's approach to private participation in infrastructure focusing on roads, water and sanitation, and power generation by expanding foreign direct investment and domestic financing in such projects. It compares China's experience with those of other countries.

Author : Werner Baer,William Miles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135790288

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Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America by Werner Baer,William Miles Pdf

Examine the changing nature of foreign investments in Latin America!Generously enhanced with easy-to-understand charts, tables, and graphs, this book covers the ins and outs of foreign direct investment in the established and emerging markets of Latin America. In addition to an overview of direct investment for the entire Latin American region in the 1990s, this valuable book examines specific countries’ experiences with FDI in that decade. These include Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.Spending on environmental projects is on the rise, and Latin American nations are at the forefront of this financial whirlwind in the developing world. Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America: Its Changing Nature at the Turn of the Century examines the difficulties of assessing environmental investments. It analyzes the role of international capital in Latin-American environmental issues and discusses the major players, such as the World Bank, in international capital and the environment.Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America presents case studies that illustrate: the history of FDI in Argentina and the impact of the privatization of state-owned enterprises in 1991-1993 the similarities and differences between 1990s FDI in Mexico and Chile the ways that modern investment in Brazil differs in purpose from investment there in previous economic eras how Peru addressed its balance-of-payments crisis in a time when its domestic financial markets were thin and there existed few sources of financing besides banks how Paraguay’s historical lack of infrastructure has hampered FDI efforts there Ecuador’s financial and balance-of-payments crisis-its currency is in free-fall and its financial institutions are on the brink of collapse . . . and much more!Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America packs all this valuable information into a single user-friendly source. As we move into the new millennium, no student, educator, or investor interested in this quickly evolving, volatile market should be without it!

Author : Mr.Ali J Al-Sadiq
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513566795

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The Role of E-Government in Promoting Foreign Direct Investment Inflows by Mr.Ali J Al-Sadiq Pdf

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has helped accelerate the digitization of public services. The lockdown initiated by most governments to curb the spread of the coronavirus forced most public agencies to switch to online platforms to continue providing information and services to the public. It is widely recognized that information diffusion and communication technology play a large role in improving the quality of public services in terms of time, cost, and interface with the public, business, and other agencies. Potentially, e-government could enhance a country’s locational advantages and attract more Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows. This hypothesis is tested empirically using an unbalanced panel data analysis for 178 host countries over the period 2003-2018. The results suggest that e-government stimulates the inflow of FDI.

Author : Ricardo Barretto,Paulo Brancher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Commercial law
ISBN : 1641050306

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Foreign Investment in South America by Ricardo Barretto,Paulo Brancher Pdf

Author : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9211127556

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Transnational Corporations and the Infrastructure Challenge by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Pdf

The World Investment Report 2008 presents the latest data on foreign direct investment (FDI) and traces global and regional trends in FDI and in international production by transnational corporations (TNCs). This year's report puts a special focus on the role of TNCs in meeting the huge needs of developing countries for infrastructure such as roads, ports, water, gas and electricity supply, and telecommunications. Drawing on unique data, this year, the Report examines the universe of the largest TNCs investing in infrastructure industries and the increasing role of TNCs from the South in contributing to infrastructure in other developing economies. The Report explores how the participation of TNCs brings benefits, but also entails risks and costs. It considers how the mix of public and private (including TNC) involvement can help spur foreign investment and knowledge transfer to countries that need such inflows.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264196162

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OECD Investment Policy Reviews: Slovenia 2002 by OECD Pdf

OECD's review of investment policy in Slovenia for 2002.