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World Investment Report 2012:Towards a New generation Investment Policies

Published by UNCTAD, July 2012 Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows exceeded the pre-crisis average in 2011, reaching $1.5 trillion despite turmoil in the global economy. However, they still remained some 23 per cent below their 2007 peak. . Leading indicators – the value of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and greenfield investments – retreated [...]

UNCTAD HANDBOOK OF STATISTICS 2011

Published by UNCTAD on December 19, 2011 The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics provides essential data for analysing and measuring world trade, investment, international financial flows and development. Reliable statistical information is often considered as the first step during the preparation of making recommendations or taking decisions that countries will commit for many years as they [...]

Environment And The Aging Experience Among South Indian Hunter-Gatherers

by Seetha Kokkoth Asia Research Centre Working Paper No.53, 2011 There has been much discussion on aging and peoples’ concerns for old age. However, few studies have been done on the aging experience from an emic perspective. This geroanthropological paper makes an attempt to understand the aging experiences of hunter-gatherers viz., the Cholanaickan and the [...]

Role Reversal in Global Finance

by Eswar S. Prasad IZA WP No.6032, October 2011 I document that emerging markets have cast off their “original sin” – their external liabilities are no longer dominated by foreign-currency debt and have instead shifted sharply towards direct investment and portfolio equity. Their external assets are increasingly concentrated in foreign exchange reserves held in advanced [...]

ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS: A SURVEY

Kathryn Gordon and Joachim Pohl OECD WORKING PAPERS ON INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT No. 2011/1 International investment agreements define commitments on investment protection, but also shed light on how these commitments are to be integrated with other public policy objectives. Investment protection in the context of environmental regulation has been a frequent source of controversy and investor-state [...]

Demographic Structure and the Security of Property Rights in Developing Countries: An Empirical Exploration

Philipp Harms and Philipp an de Meulen RUHR Economic Paper #229 Date: Nov-2010 It is often argued that countries with a high population share of children and young workers should attract large capital infl ows from aging industrialized economies. However, many of these countries deter foreign investors by a high risk of creeping or outright expropriation. In this paper [...]

Medium-Term Determinants of International Investment Positions

Davide Furceri, Stéphanie Guichard, Elena Rusticelli OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 863 This paper provides an empirical investigation of the medium-term determinants of international investment positions for a large sample of advanced and emerging economies. In addition to the usually considered drivers of foreign assets and liabilities, the analysis focuses on the role of [...]

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