World Investment Report 1999: Foreign Direct Investment and the Challenge of Development. United Nations Conference On Trade and Development (UNCTAD): United Nations, New York and Geneva, 1999, ISBN…

By Lilach Nachum. 2000

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Should Countries Promote Foreign Direct Investment (2001, background): “2 A recent UN study shows that during the period 1990– 1998 over 135 countries reduced regulatory restrictions on FDI (UNCTAD, 1999c).”
Competition and Corporate Governance in Transition (2002, background): “This was probably largely for political reasons (Boycko, Shleifer and Vishny, 1995), especially in countries where the pro-reform forces were politically weak (Bennett, Estrin and Maw, 2000). According to Earle and Estrin (1997), insiders held a majority shareholding in 75 percent of firms in Russia”
Infrastructure or foreign direct investment?: An examination of the implications of MNE strategy for economic development (2009, background): “The realization of potential benefits from FDI is a challenging process at which relatively few countries have been successful (Dunning & Narula, 2004; Lall & Narula, 2004; Nunnenkamp, 2004; Nunnenkamp & Spatz, 2004; UNCTAD, 1999).”
T ra nsna tio na l linka ge s a nd t he spill ove r of env iro n m ent- ef fi ci ency into develo pi ng c ountri es (2009, background): “…spillovers, which facilitate the adoption, implementation and replication of more advanced, enviro ment-efficient technologies amongst domestic firms, e.g. employees of a TNC subsidiary learn technological knowhow which they diffuse to local competitors through labor mobility (UNCTAD, 1999).”
Global production networks and the changing geography of innovation systems. Implications for developing countries (2002, background): “There is now a growing consensus that liberalization of trade and investment flows should not be equalized with a retreat of the state (e.g., Rodrik, 1999; UNCTAD, 1999).”
Working Across Borders: Multinational Enterprises and the Internationalization of Employment (2003, background): “MNEs are increasingly regarded as the principal vehicle for the international transfer of capital, technology, know-how and management and marketing skills to employees and local producers and suppliers (UNCTAD, 1999).”