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What is Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

World Politics and the Challenges for International Security
A cross-border investment through which a person or corporation based in one country purchases or constructs an asset such as a factory or bank in another country so that a long-term relationship and control of an enterprise by nonresidents results.
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The Economic Component of World Politics and the Main Global Social and Economic Problems
Nika Chitadze (International Black Sea University, Georgia)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 68
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9586-2.ch013
Abstract
The purpose of this research is consideration and analysis of the main social and economic problems of the world, which are connected with the existence of the gap between “Global North” and “Global South” and problems of the consumption of mineral resources, including energy and water resources, unemployment, illiteracy, health issues, food supply, demography, etc. We are watching the world become one. Countries and regions are interconnected by a thousand threads that make them interdependent. The world economy today is undergoing a process of globalization – the increasing interdependence of the economies of various countries of the world due to the growth in the movement of goods and services and the intensive exchange of goods, information, technologies, and labor migration.
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Financial Misreporting and Corporate Governance Lapses: A Deep Dive Into the 1MDB Scandal in Malaysia
An investment made by a firm or individual in one country into business interests located in another country. It often takes the form of establishing businesses operations or acquiring assets in the foreign country.
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International Trade, Economic Growth, and Turkey
A foreign direct investment (FDI) is a purchase of an interest in a company by a company or an investor located outside its borders.
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“Belt and Road” Initiative as a Development Chance for the Western Balkan Countries: The Case of Serbia
Is a category of cross-border investment in which an investor resident in one economy establishes a lasting interest in and a significant degree of influence over an enterprise resident in another economy. FDI is an important channel for the transfer of technology between countries, promotes international trade through access to foreign markets, and can be an important vehicle for economic development.
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Chile under the Government of Sebastián Piñera
Is an investment into production or business in a country made by an individual or a company of another country, that is not passive, i.e. excludes investment in the securities such as stocks or bonds.
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Governmental and Cultural Factors in Broadband Adoption
A long-term investment by a foreign investor in an enterprise resident in an economy other than that in which the foreign direct investor is based. The FDI relationship consists of a parent enterprise and a foreign affiliate which together form a multinational corporation (MNC). In order to qualify as an FDI, the investment must afford the parent enterprise control over its foreign affiliate.
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Critical Review of Curriculum in Legal Financial Studies in Turkey: Perspectives and Prospects
An investment made by an entity based in one country into an entity based in another country. Such investing entities have a significant influence over the invested entities.
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The Impact of Macroeconomic Indicators on Unemployment Rate: Western Balkan Countries
An investment made by a firm or individual in one country into business interests located in another country. Generally, FDI takes place when an investor establishes foreign business operations or acquires foreign business assets, including establishing ownership or controlling interest in a foreign company.
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Diaspora and Transnational Entrepreneurship
Refers to the investment made by a firm or a business person in one country into another one, hence, representing a flow of capital between countries.
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Japan-India Trade Relations: History, Catalysts, and Challenges
A foreign direct investment (FDI) is an investment made by a firm or individual in one country into business interests located in another country. Generally, FDI takes place when an investor establishes foreign business operations or acquires foreign business assets in a foreign company.
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Infrastructure Development and Economic Development
Investment from one country into businesses and projects located in another country. Robust infrastructure helps attract FDI.
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The Global Waste Trade: A Decade in Review
FDI is an investment in the form of a controlling ownership in a business, in real estate or in productive assets such as factories in one country by an entity based in another country.
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Foreign Direct Investments: A Key Factor for Business Globalization
Capital investment by the company or individual with the aim of performing profitable activities on the territory of one state.
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Montenegro and BRI Initiative: Between Economic Performance and Global Political Challenges
Is a category of cross-border investment in which an investor resident in one economy establishes a lasting interest in and a significant degree of influence over an enterprise resident in another economy.
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Foreign Direct Investment in the Cement Industry of Turkey: Overall Contribution by Multinational Businesses and Potential Impacts on the Economy
Foreign direct investment is to transfer the factors of production (such as capital, technology, know-how, manpower, equipment) of a home country business to another country in order to make long lasting physical investment. FDI is the ultimate level of internationalization. It is quite risky but offers the outmost control on business operations and assets. It is sometimes quite beneficial for FDI receiving countries to have possible access to technology, knowledge and managerial talent.
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Internationalization in Times of Uncertainty: Expanding From Europe Towards Asia
Is a cross-border (asset) investment in foreign companies with the aim of significantly influencing and gaining a degree of control over their business activities over a long term. It is made by an individual or company in one economy who wants to establish a lasting interest in an enterprise located in another economy ( OECD, 1996 , 2020 ). Significant influence is deemed to exist if the investor holds 10% or more of the shares or voting rights.
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Scales and Dynamics in Outsourcing
According to UNCTAD (2005, p. 297), foreign direct investment is “an investment involving a long-term relationship and reflecting a lasting interest and control by a resident entity in one economy (foreign direct investor or parent enterprise) in an enterprise resident in an economy other than that of the foreign direct investor (FDI enterprise or affiliate enterprise or foreign affiliate).” The long-run relationship, the lasting interest and the control aspect are assumed to create distinctive consequences (positive as well as negative) for the host economy.
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Comparative Analysis: Across Cases, Categories, and Extension of OLI Framework Under Industry 4.0
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Main Characters of Globalization in the 21st Century
A cross-border investment through which a person or corporation based in one country purchases or constructs an asset such as a factory or bank in another country so that a long–term relationship and control of an enterprise by nonresidents results.
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The Free Market Economy as the Main Guarantee of the State's Socio-Economic Development and Promoting International Cooperation
A cross-border investment through which a person or corporation based in one country purchases or constructs an asset such as a factory or bank in another country so that a long–term relationship and control of an enterprise by nonresidents results.
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Foreign Direct Investment During the COVID-19 Lockdown
Is defined as an investment involving a long-term relationship and reflecting a lasting interest and control by a resident entity in one economy in an enterprise resident in an economy other than that of the foreign direct investor.
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China's Trade and Investment in the Western Balkans Under the Belt and Road Initiative: Focus on North Macedonia
Is the acquisition of a significant share in a foreign business or its full purchase in order to expand operations in a new region. FDI alows lasting interest in or effective control over an enterprise operating outside of the economy of the investor. Greenfield and brownfield investments are two different types of foreign direct investment.
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