[PDF] Top 20 WORLD INVESTMENT REPORT 2007 : TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS, EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES AND DEVELOPMENT

... merits and drawbacks, depending on what policymakers are seeking to ...stability and predictability in government revenues, it is easy to administer, less prone to corruption and involves little risk ... See full document

... in industries in which they have not invested before or by shifting, within an industry, from low-productivity, low-technology, labour- intensive activities to high-productivity, high- technology, knowledge-based ... See full document

... 2005); and their favourable growth prospects continue to be very ...infrastructure development, human resource development, competitiveness and enterprise development, rural ... See full document

... treaties) and “clausula rebus sic stantibus” (which allows for the termination or adaptation of an investment contract in case of a fundamental change of ...(Solanes and Jouravlev, 2007: 8), ... See full document

... fall and were forced to take strong action to maintain their companies as ongoing ...the world had sold, or were in the process of selling, large equity positions around the globe: Royal Bank of Scotland ... See full document

... positive, and extra- ...fuels and the manufacture of ...liquid, and gas fuels and gas ...spring; and rainwater ...water, and tanker ...animal, and insect contact with ... See full document

... justice and prevention was launched in ...favelas and focused on building trust between the community and the police, while also providing a continued security ...homicide and violent crime ... See full document

... Comments were received during various stages of preparation from Luis Abugattas, Erfried Adam, Zoltan Adam, Yair Aharoni, Rohit Arora, Minoru Asahi, Yuko Asuyama, Zainal Aznam, Marino Baldi, Christian Bellak, Johannes ... See full document

... corrosive and destructive effects of mining revenues on small Melanesian ...exchange and sociality to deal with the distribution of large sums of cash, leading to internal disputes, between families ... See full document

... jobs and social cohesion is limited by data con- straints, the complexity of measuring social interactions, and the multiple factors that can contribute to social ...trust and civic ...others, ... See full document

... parents and compensating for early ...warm and positive emotional climate in the classroom is critical for helping children develop their noncognitive skills, as well as their cognitive ...ers and ... See full document

... devaluations, and stabilized quite soon at single-digit ...cent and the consumer price index (CPI) by ...cent and CPI by 41 per cent, and in 2003, the increase in consumer prices was as low as ... See full document

... East and South Asia and South ...meeting development goals, and as a potential stumbling-block on the road to a fully open and integrated multilateral ...technological and pro- ... See full document

... – and their expansion - in host economies have become a particularly important issue, especially in South- East Asia after the Asian financial crisis, as the inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) have ... See full document

... number and receive authoriza- tion from the bank to make the ...company and get a physical card that will allow transactions to be ...goods and services from merchants electronically linked either ... See full document

... essary and reduce the burden on regulators. Municipal and large industrial users of power in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru enjoy competition from long-distance transmission lines carrying power ... See full document

... equality and specific actions must be ...entrepreneurs, and also specific programs and support system should be created to foster the participation of women in the creative industries ... See full document

... affiliates and domestic (linked) ...specialization and flexibility, a n d a d a p t technologies and products better and faster t o l o c a l c o n d i t i o n s ...technological and ... See full document

... Al momento de escribir esta recensión no disponemos del texto completo en castellano sino sólo del resumen (“Panorama”). El año 2007, en esta misma revista, recensionábamo[r] ... See full document

... Billerbeck, and Ijaz ...governance and institutional ...literature and concepts (Mata and Ziaja 2009). The World Bank Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) scores ... See full document