UNCTAD’s World Investment Prospects Survey 2010–2012 provides an outlook on future trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) by the largest transnational corporations (TNCs). The present publication is the most recent in a series of similar surveys that have been conducted regularly by UNCTAD since 1995 as part of the background work for its annual World Investment Report.
This volume addresses issues that are critical to defining a new paradigm for East Asian economic growth. Specifically, the authors examine the strategies adopted in coping with the crisis; policy responses to rectify weaknesses that might have induced or aggravated the crisis; and structural problems to be resolved in order to bring East Asian economies back firmly to a path of long-term growth.
The Security Needs Assessment Protocol project of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research is working to improve operational effectiveness ”meaning the impact and sustainable success of any undertaking designed to effect social change in a community” in humanitarian, development and security operations by improving the design of field-level activities that pertain to community …
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Intra-regional trade has been rising rapidly, especially after China's accession to the WTO in 2001. China's economy is expanding rapidly, and has already passed Japan in 2010 to become the world's second largest economy. It is clearly producing a huge impact on the world economy, and particularly on ASEAN countries. This is the appropriate time to take stock: what has APEC achieved so far? How…
The volume is divided into four parts. Part I considers the broad trends in the recent economic performances of the United States and the problem of increasing protectionism. Part II analyses the structural adjustments in both the United States and the developing countries in ASEAN. Part III provides analyses of U.S. ASEAN trade in services from both the U.S. and ASEAN perspectives. Part IV rol…
The constant failure of Pakistan's foreign policy since 1998, and internal crisis has became the great concern of major political and religious parties.
This anthology aims at identyifying the missing links sustainable development for South Asia, and proposes fillers for these. Questions addressed in this anthology addresss why benefits of globalization have failed to tricle down to the region's vast population, and call for a process o global economic integration that benefits the marginalized.
Japan seeks economic competitiveness vis-a-vis the West and economic dominance in Asia, but it mainly competes through cooperative use of economic resources, which facilitates realization of the goals of partner nations. This book studies Japan's balance between the United States and East Asia by focusing on the use of economic power - defense spending, consumption, and investment - to advance …
This book is divided into four parts, the first two examine the processes underlying the globalization of production systems looking at key theoretical and conceptual frameworks. The second two parts explore the responses to the globalization of production systems and refer to economies at different stages of development.