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Attracting Fdi And Benefiting From It: Challenges For The Least Developed Countries, Karl P. Sauvant Nov 2014

Attracting Fdi And Benefiting From It: Challenges For The Least Developed Countries, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Spoke on “Attracting FDI and Benefiting From It: Challenges for the Least Developed Countries,” at an event on “Investment Promotion Regimes for Foreign Direct Investment in the Least Developed Countries,” held by the Second Committee of the UN's General Assembly, New York, 24 November 2014. The presentation was subsequently published in the Transnational Corporations Review, vol. 7, no. 2 (June 2015), pp. 125-127.


G7 Move For Fair And Stable Contracts Can Be A Boon To Developing Economies, Karl P. Sauvant Jul 2014

G7 Move For Fair And Stable Contracts Can Be A Boon To Developing Economies, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant, "G7 Move for Fair and Stable Contracts Can be a Boon to Developing Economies,” letter to the editor, Financial Times, 10 July 2014.


China's Regulatory Framework For Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Karl P. Sauvant, Victor Zitian Chen Feb 2014

China's Regulatory Framework For Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Karl P. Sauvant, Victor Zitian Chen

Karl P. Sauvant

China has become the world’s third largest outward investor, behind the United States and Japan. A growing body of literature suggests that China’s regulatory framework for outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) is a determinant of the country’s rising OFDI. This paper presents a holistic review of that framework, including some possibilities for its improvement. Overall, China’s framework serves two objectives: to help Chinese firms become more competitive internationally and to assist the country in its development effort. In pursuing these objectives, the regulatory framework has moved from restricting, to facilitating, to supporting, to encouraging OFDI; but there are still strong …


A Study Of The Effects Of Foreign Direct Investment On The Economy Of The State Of New Hampshire Since 1973, Eric J. Allain Jan 2014

A Study Of The Effects Of Foreign Direct Investment On The Economy Of The State Of New Hampshire Since 1973, Eric J. Allain

Honors Theses and Capstones

The purpose of the thesis is to determine the impact that foreign direct investment has had on New Hampshire. New Hampshire as a state was impacted far less severely than much of the rest of the country, which could be considered surprising given the relatively high cost of housing in the state. I believe that part of what made New Hampshire more recession resistant is having the right foreign companies providing employment. To do this, I will be looking at FDI as a percentage of GDP over the previous 40 years and looking for a correlation between a higher percentage …


China Needs ‘Going-In’ Rules For Fdi Goodwill, Karl P. Sauvant, Victor Zitian Chen Dec 2013

China Needs ‘Going-In’ Rules For Fdi Goodwill, Karl P. Sauvant, Victor Zitian Chen

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant and Victor Z. Chen, "China Needs ‘Going-in’ Rules for FDI Goodwill,” op. ed., Shanghai Daily, 23 June 2014.