...David Floyd It has often been suggested that Britain’s favourable position of attracting over 30 per cent of Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) has been dependent on the flexibility of the labour market. However it is important to understand exactly what is meant by a flexible labour market...

...Martin Francis Parnell This paper examines German trade and investment structures in relation to China, establishing for the 1990s: a severe trade imbalance, with stagnating German exports and sharply rising imports; it also establishes, despite occasionally substantial increases in contracted...

...Miroslav Koncõina Forecast of opportunities at the beginning of transition period © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Organizational restructuring Privatization Business strategy Competitiveness Investment The relation between strategic orientations and real...

... raised over E(c)500m to promote the economic transition process there, recently announced an additional $132m investment in three of the country's Baltic ports. The EBRD as well as the EIB and the EU's Phare programme are also part-financing a $385m investment to modernise the Warsaw-Berlin railway line...

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... Turkish economy through the vehicles of history, the banking system, foreign investments, government apparatuses, and domestic markets and trade policy. Moreover, this paper identifies strategies and market sectors for potential investors. Finally, this paper offers a counterpoint which notes several...

...Martin F. Parnell The pressures of globalization in general and the specific fact of declining inward investment represent together a formidable challenge not only to the German political economy itself, but also possibly to the relevance and viability of the “Rhineland” model of capitalism...

... their end customer and consumer. In this context various models of relating evolution are considered as well as an examination of the possible methods by which retailing will develop over time. The potential for inward investments is examined but the paper concludes that inward investment by retailers from...

...Hubert Ooghe The objective of this study is to describe financial management practices in China by means of a qualitative, case study approach. A total of 16 firms in the Shanghai region were interviewed. The research results refer to: investment in fixed assets; financing methods and sources...

...Thomas Ország‐Land Features excerpts from an interview with Peter Medgyessy, the Hungarian Finance Minister. Covers topics such as Medgyessy’s assessment of the reasons for Hungary’s good performance in attacting foreign direct investment. Also considers a range of other issues...

...Jane Hardy Provides a critical overview of the role of foreign direct investment in the transition to market economies in Eastern Europe, and Poland in particular. Patterns of investment are examined in the wider context of changes in the global pattern of international trade and production,taking...

...Brian Burkitt; Phillip Whyman Analyses the economic influences that led to the development of the proposal to introduce employee investment funds into Sweden in 1976. Discusses the proposed objectives of the funds and describes the controversy, both political and economic, which surrounded them...

...Brian Kenny Helped by somewhat limited inward investment from the West and a programme of wide‐scale privatization, reform in the Czech Republic appears to be proceeding relatively successfully. Emerging from the pressures of a long and complex history of political, geophysical and economic change...

...Clive Collis; David Noon; Nigel Berkeley Examines trends in the flows of direct investment to the West Midlands region of the UK during the 1980s. An analysis of Invest in Britain Bureau data reveals two trends of particular interest: the marked increase in the WMR′s share of FDI flows to the UK...