The UN and Transnational Corporations
The UN and Transnational Corporations

Author: Tagi Sagafi-nejad

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2008-10-16

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 0253000696

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Are transnational corporations (TNCs) and foreign direct investment beneficial or harmful to societies around the world? Since the birth of the United Nations more than 60 years ago, these questions have been major issues of interest and involvement for UN institutions. What have been the key ideas generated by the UN about TNCs and their relations with nation-states? How have these ideas evolved and what has been their impact? This book examines the history of UN engagement with TNCs, including the creation of the UN Commission and Centre on Transnational Corporations in 1974, the failed efforts of these bodies to craft a code of conduct to temper the revealed abuses of TNCs, and, with the advent of globalization in the 1980s, the evolution of a more cooperative relationship between TNCs and developing countries, resulting in the 1999 Global Compact.

Yearbook of the United Nations, Volume 48 (1994)
Yearbook of the United Nations, Volume 48 (1994)

Author: United Nations

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

Published: 2023-09-29

Total Pages: 1580

ISBN-13: 900463696X

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Fully indexed, the 1994 edition of the Yearbook is the single most current, comprehensive and authoritative reference publication about the work of the United Nations, other international organizations and related bodies. The book is designed not just for use by diplomats, officials and scholars but also by other researchers, writers, journalists, teachers and students. The year 1994 was a remarkably eventful one for the United Nations and in the conduct of international relations. This volume of the Yearbook details the activities of the United Nations, its many organs, agencies and programmes, working together to rekindle a new form of multilateral cooperation for a better world. It records the diverse and globe-encompassing activities of the United Nations and its enduring efforts to deal with the world's pressing concerns, particularly matters of international peace and security, disarmament, human rights, the settlement of regional conflicts, economic and social development, the preservation of the environment, control of drugs and narcotic substance abuse, crime prevention, adequate shelter, youth and the ageing and humanitarian assistance for refugees as well as disaster relief.

Globalization of Services
Globalization of Services

Author: Yair Aharoni

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2000-06

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1134736371

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This important book offers economists both a wealth of new source material and a fresh perspective on the modern global economy. It includes contributions from a wide range of international authors.

International Investment Instruments
International Investment Instruments

Author: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Division on Transnational Corporations and Investment

Publisher: United Nations Publications

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9789211126167

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This is the 11th volume in the collection of international instruments relating to foreign direct investment (FDI) and transnational corporations (TNCs). It is divided into three parts and covers: multilateral instruments, including the UN General Assembly resolution 58/4 regarding the convention against corruption; regional and inter-regional instruments, and a number of bilateral instruments.

A Century of Foreign Investment in the Third World
A Century of Foreign Investment in the Third World

Author: Michael Twomey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1134569203

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The late twentieth century has witnessed a dramatic upsurge in foreign direct investment in the Third World. Based upon thorough statistical analysis, the book presents exhaustive case-studies of foreign investment policy in 'metropolitan' countries and of the experiences of 'host' countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. With a wide geographical and historical focus, it also makes an important contribution to current debates on dependency theory.

Geography and Ownership as Bases for Economic Accounting
Geography and Ownership as Bases for Economic Accounting

Author: Robert E. Baldwin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0226036545

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Geography and Ownership as Bases for Economic Accounting provides a forum for leading specialists in trade and international economics to explore whether changes in the world economy have increased the usefulness of international accounts drawn up on the basis of ownership rather than on geography. The papers in this volume suggest that ownership-based national accounts are helpful in understanding trade and financial transactions among globalized enterprises. Individual chapters emphasize this perspective through accounting exercises, studies of individual countries, and studies of foreign direct investment and its relation to national economies. This volume gives trade and international economists the data and resources to renew discussion of this timely issue.

Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfers
Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfers

Author: Nagesh Kumar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-08-29

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1134655029

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In this book, Nagesh Kumar and expert contributors examine and explain the emerging patterns in international technology transfers and foreign direct investment flows (FDIs) over the past two decades. They analyse the trends in internationalization of corporate activity in individual source countries, discussing outflows from both major and emerging source countries. This departs from the existing treatments of FDI as homogenous resource and allows for a more detailed prediction of future outflow patterns. Throughout, the research focuses upon the implications of new trends for developing countries. Kumar concludes by outlining the policy implications for the governments of such countries seeking to mobilize technology and FDI for their industrialization and further integration into the international community. Controversially, he cautions against excessive optimism about the potential of FDI inflows as an agent of development. This book draws together much data and information which is not readily available and provides reflections upon international business negotiations from a developing country's perspective.

Global Capitalism at Bay
Global Capitalism at Bay

Author: Professor John H Dunning

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2000-12-14

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1134555830

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In this collection of his latest essays, John H. Dunning - renowned authority in international business - elaborates his theories on the current situation of foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises. Global Capitalism at Bay considers the unique characteristics of contemporary capitalism, and what must be done if it is to survive and