This paper looks at the effects of corporate taxation on bilateral FDI stocks in 28 investing countries and their partners, focusing on the OECD area over the 1990s, contributing to previous panel data analyses of the tax/FDI nexus in two main ways. First, the paper relates bilateral FDI with new estimates of tax wedges that include many relevant aspects of FDI-specific taxation. These estimates are based on tax codes and provide marginal effective tax rates (METRs) and average effective tax rat more...
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“The more details emerge, the clearer it becomes that Washington’s handling of the Wall Street bailout is not merely incompetent. It is borderline criminal,” says Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine. [includes rush transcript]
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News release with the findings of an annual survey of Russian MNEs (November 2008).
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Chapter by Lisa Sachs and Karl P. Sauvant from 'The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties and Double Taxation Treaties on FDI flows' (Oxford University Press, 2009 forthcoming).
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Globally, the number of investment projects and jobs in the creative industries cluster has been growing, and 2008 looks set to surpass all other years.
The creative industries cluster accounted for 3.3% of all global investment projects from January 2003 to July 2008, with 2157 projects, according to fDi Intelligence.
This represents an estimated investment of $31bn and the creation of more than 135,000 jobs. Although the creative industries cluster has grown overall by 43% from 282 proje more...
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As FDI rises, export market share falls. As peace comes to some countries, violence intensifies in others. What is an investor to make of Africa? Michael Deibert reports.
When investors look across Africa as the year draws to a close, a contradictory picture emerges of a continent beginning to tap into its great potential, while being ever-threatened by the demons of old.
According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), FDI in African countries reached $35.6bn i more...
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The Korean government is in the midst of a three-year plan to make the country more business friendly as it looks to realize its vast FDI potential.
Just one decade after the first of two major government-led liberalizations of Korea’s foreign direct investment (FDI)-related policy, which was spurred by the onset of the Asian financial crisis, FDI remains critically important to the country, accounting for 14% of GDP and 8% of manufacturing employment in 2006. However, as cumulative stock o more...
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